Pb and Sr isotopes in volcanic rocks from the Aleutian Islands and Pribilof Islands, Alaska

Details Pb and Sr isotopes in volcanic rocks from the Aleutian Islands and Pribilof Islands, Alaska Pb and Sr isotopes in volcanic rocks from the Aleutian Islands and Pribilof Islands, Alaska

Mar 1978

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 42, Issue 3, pp.263-273

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The Pb and Sr isotope ratios of Plio-Pleistocene volcanic rocks from the Aleutian volcanic arc are used as tracers of the lithospheric subduction process at the converging Pacific and Bering plates. Aleutian arc lavas do not have the same Pb isotopic compositions as volcanic rocks of the subducted Pacific ocean crust or the nearby Pribilof Islands, but appear to contain an `old continental crustal component' with high 207 Pb/ 204 Pb ratio, as has been found in some other volcanic arcs. 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios in the Aleutian volcanic arc rocks average 0.70322, slightly higher than fresh volcanic rocks from normal ridge segments, but within the range of values from `Icelandic' ridge segments, oceanic islands and the Pribolof Islands. The Pb and Sr isotopic compositions of Aleutian lavas show a positive correlation and the range of values does not change for volcanoes distributed along strike in the arc, even though the crustal type in the hanging wall of the Benioff zone changes from oceanic in the west to continental in the east. Since the basement of the continental arc segment is older than the basement of the oceanic segment, and probably has a different isotopic character, the constancy of isotopic ratios along the arc argues against contamination by wall rocks of the type exposed in the arc. A sufficient explanation for the isotopic data is the mixture of several per cent of continent-derived sediment with melt derived from the underthrust oceanic crust and overlying mantle. This small amount of contaminant is difficult to document by geophysical observations. Such a model implies extensive recycling of Ba, Pb, K and Rb through volcanism at convergent plate margins like the Aleutians.

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