A hafnium isotope and trace element perspective on melting of the depleted mantle

Details A hafnium isotope and trace element perspective on melting of the depleted mantle A hafnium isotope and trace element perspective on melting of the depleted mantle

Aug 2001

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 190, Issue 3-4, p. 137-151.

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New Hf isotope and trace element data on mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) from the Pacific Ocean basin are remarkably uniform (176Hf/177Hf~0.28313-0.28326) and comparable to previously published data [Salters, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 141 (1996) 109-123 Patchett, Lithos 16 (1983) 47-51]. Atlantic MORB have 176Hf/177Hf ranging from 0.28302 to 0.28335 confirming the wide range originally identified by Patchett and Tatsumoto [Geophys. Res. Lett. 7 (1980) 1077-1080]. Indian MORB define an even wider range, from 0.28277 to 0.28337, but three exotic samples have very unradiogenic Hf isotope compositions. Their very low 176Hf/177Hf ratios, together with their trace element characteristics, require the presence of unusual plume-type material beneath the Indian ridge. All other Indian MORB have uniform Hf isotope compositions at about 0.2832, and define a small field displaced to the right of other MORB in Hf-Nd isotope space. The distinct nature of Indian MORB is best explained by the presence in Indian depleted mantle of old recycled oceanic crust and pelagic sediments. Sm/Hf ratios calculated from new high-precision rare earth element and Hf trace element data do not vary in MORB in the same way as in ocean island basalts (OIB): ratios are constant in OIB, but decrease with increasing Sm contents in MORB. The constancy of Sm/Hf in OIB is probably due to an overwhelming influence of residual garnet during melting. By contrast, the decrease of Sm/Hf in MORB is due to the effect of clinopyroxene in the residue of melting beneath ridges, an interpretation confirmed by quantitative modeling of melting. The relationship between Sm/Nd and Lu/Hf ratios in MORB does not require the presence of garnet in the residual mineralogy. The decoupling of Lu/Hf ratios and Hf isotope compositions - the so-called Hf paradox [Salters and Hart, EOS Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 70 (1989) 510] - can be explained by melting dominantly in the spinel field at shallow depths beneath mid-ocean ridges.

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