A re-appraisal of the use of trace elements to classify and discriminate between magma series erupted in different tectonic settings

Details A re-appraisal of the use of trace elements to classify and discriminate between magma series erupted in different tectonic settings A re-appraisal of the use of trace elements to classify and discriminate between magma series erupted in different tectonic settings

Nov 1979

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 45, Issue 2, p. 326-336.

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The hygromagmatophile element composition of basic lavas from several tectonic environments are compared with the estimated composition of the primordial mantle. The observed variations are used to subdivide mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) into two main types according to the tectonic character of the ridge segment from which they were erupted. Ridge segments with positive residual gravity, depth and heat flow anomalies erupt E-type MORB which are predominantly enriched in the more hygromagmatophile elements, but also include magma types which are depleted in most of these elements. Both enriched and depleted E-type MORB can be distinguished from the basalts erupted at normal ridge segments (N-type MORB) by their La/Ta ratios (in E-type MORB La/Ta ~10, in N-type MORB La/Ta is ~15) and by Hf/Ta ratios (in E-type MORB Hf/Ta > 7, in N-type MORB Hf/Ta > 7). E-type MORB can be distinguished from the basalts erupted at ocean islands by their higher Hf/Ta ratios (>2). A Th-Hf-Ta triangular diagram is used to discriminate between the different ocean floor basalts as well as those erupted at destructive plate margins, which are depleted in Ta and Nb. This diagram can also distinguish between silicic lavas from the different tectonic environments as well as identifying lavas that have been contaminated with continental crust.

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