High-Mg Andesites in the Setouchi Volcanic Belt, Southwestern Japan: Analogy to Archean Magmatism and Continental Crust Formation?

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May 2006

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Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 34, p.467-499

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The occurrence of unusual high-Mg andesite (HMA) characterizes the Setouchi volcanic belt in SW Japan, which was activated at 13.7±1.0 Ma by subduction of the young and hot Shikoku Basin lithosphere into the high-temperature upper mantle. This tectonic setting may be analogous to the thermal regime during Archean times, which suggests more ubiquitous production of HMA. A plausible process that can comprehensively account for the petrological and geochemical characteristics of Setouchi HMAs involves partial melting of subducting lithosphere, subsequent melt-mantle interactions, and final equilibration with the upper-most mantle. HMAs and more differentiated andesites, which are coined sanukitoids, are distinct in that they are phenocryst-poor (<10%), compact, and nearly anhydrous, despite HMA magmas originally containing 7 wt% H2O, and commonly form composite lava flows. One mechanism for explaining these features is formation of a mostly solidified HMA pluton, remelting of the HMA pluton by intrusion of a high-temperature basaltic magma, consequent production of a nearly dry HMA magma, and mixing of this HMA magma with overlying residual felsic melts during ascent to form a zoned magma reservoir.

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