Origin of basalts from the Marquesas Archipelago (south central Pacific Ocean): isotope and trace element constraints

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Mar 1987

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 82, Issue 1-2, p. 145-152.

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Basalts from the Marquesas Archipelago display significant variations according to magmatic type in 143Nd/144Nd (0.512710-0.512925) and 87Sr/86Sr (0.70288-0.70561) suggesting heterogeneities at various scales in the mantle source, with respectively the highest and lowest values in tholeiites compared to alkali basalts. This relationship is the reverse from that observed in the Hawaiian islands. Systematic indications of magma mixing are recognized from the relationships between trace element and isotopic ratios. Tholeiites from Ua Pou Island which have unradiogenic Sr (about 0.7028) plot close to basalts from Tubuai and St. Helena, i.e. distinctly below the main mantle trend in the Nd vs. Sr isotopic diagram. It is suggested that the source of these tholeiites is ancient subducted lithosphere which has suffered previous extraction of liquid with island arc tholeiite composition. The trace element and isotopic data of the basalts from the other Marquesas Islands imply the contamination of an equivalent source by an enriched component. This latter has trace element characteristics of the upper crust.

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