Extreme 3He/4He ratios in northwest Iceland: constraining the common component in mantle plumes

Details Extreme 3He/4He ratios in northwest Iceland: constraining the common component in mantle plumes Extreme 3He/4He ratios in northwest Iceland: constraining the common component in mantle plumes

Nov 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999e%26psl.173...53h&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 173, Issue 1-2, p. 53-60.

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Olivine and clinopyroxene phenocrysts contained in late Tertiary basalts from Selardalur, northwest Iceland, carry volatiles with the highest helium isotope ratio yet reported for any mantle plume. 3He/4He ratios measured on three different samples and extracted by stepped crushing in vacuo fall consistently ~37 RA (RA = air 3He/4He) - significantly higher than previously reported values for Iceland or Loihi Seamount (see K.A. Farley, E. Neroda [Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26 (1998) 189-218]). The Sr, Nd and Pb isotopic composition of the same sample places it towards the center of the mantle tetrahedron of Hart et al. (S.R. Hart, E.H. Hauri, L.A. Oschmann, J.A. Whitehead [Science 256 (1992) 517-520]) - in exactly the region predicted for the common mantle endmember based on the convergence of a number of pseudo-linear arrays of ocean island basalts worldwide (E.H. Hauri, J.A. Whitehead, S.R. Hart [J. Geophys. Res. 99 (1994) 24275-24300]). This observation implies that Selardalur may represent the best estimate available to date of the He-Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic composition of the 5th mantle component common to many mantle plumes.

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