“…Integrating the isotopic ratios with the element compositions, the Cenozoic basalts from the Taihang Mountains are inferred to be derived from partial melting of an asthenospheric source with different degrees of the involvement of old lithospheric mantle. Zhi et al, 1990;Basu et al, 1991;, old lithospheric mantle (OLM) beneath the NCC , CPX in peridotite xenoliths in the Fanshi (Tang et al, 2008;2011), Yangyuan (Ma & Xu, 2006) and Hannuoba basalts (Song & Frey, 1989;Tatsumoto et al, 1992;Fan et al, 2000;Rudnick et al, 2004), DM, MORB and OIB (Zindler & Hart, 1986), Mesozoic Fangcheng basalts , Mesozoic Jinan gabbros and Zouping gabbros (Guo et al, 2003;Ying et al, 2005), the upper-middle crust and lower crust of the NCC (Jahn & Zhang, 1984;Jahn et al, 1988). Other data sources and symbols as in Fig.…”