Evaluation of models for the origin of Miocene low-δ18O rhyolites of the Yellowstone/Columbia River Large Igneous Province

Details Evaluation of models for the origin of Miocene low-δ18O rhyolites of the Yellowstone/Columbia River Large Igneous Province Evaluation of models for the origin of Miocene low-δ18O rhyolites of the Yellowstone/Columbia River Large Igneous Province

Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012e%26psl.313...45b&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 313, p. 45-55.

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Low-Δ18O Rhyolite, Oxygen Isotopes, Yellowstone Hotspot, Snake River Plain, Volume

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Two models have been proposed for the origin of the low-δ18O rhyolites of the Snake River Plain-Yellowstone hotspot trend. The first involves a single multicyclic caldera system, or multiple nested or overlapping systems, in which the early-erupted products become hydrothermally altered and are subsequently melted to form low-δ18O rhyolites (Bindeman and Valley, 2001; Watts et al., 2011). The second model appeals to a crustal magma source which was hydrothermally altered in a thermal event prior to the onset of Miocene magmatism (Boroughs et al., 2005). We critically evaluate the plausibility of each and provide thermal, temporal, and volume constraints which must be included in any model for the petrogenesis of low-δ18O rhyolites of the central Snake River Plain. Although the models are not mutually exclusive, we conclude that a component of pre-existing low-δ18O crust is required in the central Snake River Plain where the greatest volumes of strongly 18O-depleted rhyolite occur. This component could be provided by meteoric-hydrothermally altered granites of the Idaho batholith, which are cut by the central Snake River Plain.

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