Geochemistry of basaltic and gabbroic rocks from the West Mariana basin and the Mariana trench

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Mar 1978

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 39, Issue 1, p. 127-144.

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This paper describes the chemistry of 33 basaltic rocks dredged from the West Mariana basin and from the Mariana trench during the R/V ``Dmitry Mendeleev'' 1976 cruise in the western Pacific. sThe shipboard investigations were carried out by an international working group of 66 earth scientists under the IGCP Project ``Ophiolites'' and sponsored by the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow. The purpose of the expedition was to investigate the structure and composition of the oceanic crust of marginal basins, remnant island arcs and deep-sea trenches. Tholeiitic basalts and gabbros as well as ultramafic rocks in various stages of alteration were dredged from the central part of the West Mariana basin demonstrating the presence of oceanic crust. sThe Pacific slope of the Mariana trench yielded altered basaltic rocks of tholeiitic and alkalic (? trachybasaltic to shoshonitic) composition. The lower part of the island arc slope contains typical tholeiitic basalts, dolerites and gabbros as well as ultramafics associated with flysch-type sediments. This is strong evidence for the formation of an ``ophiolite-schuppenzone'', probably due to subduction of Pacific oceanic crust. sAssociated with these rocks are amygdaloidal, highly magnesian lavas (similar to boninites), which have not been recognized previously in oceanic ridge basalts. sThese rocks (together with the dolerites) are interpreted as parts of the Mariana island arc and are thought to be the first stage of island arc development (an immature island arc).

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