“…Although xenoliths were subsequently mentioned regularly in publications (Talbot et al, 1963;Nougier, 1970;McBirney and Aoki, 1973; Giret, 1983;Gautier, 1987;Leyrit, 1992), systematic study only really began in the early 90's during the Kerguelen cartographic programs initiated by André Giret and the TAAF. The results of these studies make Kerguelen one of the best studied off-craton mantle xenolith occurrences on Earth (Grégoire et al, 1992(Grégoire et al, , 1994(Grégoire et al, , 1995(Grégoire et al, , 1996(Grégoire et al, , 1997(Grégoire et al, , 1998(Grégoire et al, , 2000a(Grégoire et al, -b, 2001Mattielli et al, 1996Mattielli et al, , 1999Schiano et al, 1994;Valbracht et al, 1996;Moine et al, 2000Moine et al, , 2001Moine et al, , 2004Lorand et al, 2004;Delpech et al, 2004Delpech et al, , 2012Bascou et al, 2008;Wasilewski et al, 2017). There are at least 22 mantle xenolith localities (Fig.…”