Uranium-series age constraints on lavas from the axial valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, MARK area

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Aug 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000e%26psl.181...61s&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 181, Issue 1-2, p. 61-70.

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Mass spectrometric measurements of 230Th-226Ra, 235U-231Pa and 238U-230Th disequilibria are used to determine eruption ages for four mid-ocean ridge basalts from the median valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Kane Fracture Zone (MARK area). Three samples were collected across-axis on the Axial Volcanic Ridge (i.e. the Neovolcanic Ridge) near the Snake Pit hydrothermal mound, and one sample was collected near the crest of Serocki Volcano ~50 km south of Snake Pit. (226Ra)/(230Th) and (230Th)/(238U) activity ratios are low and uniform for all four samples, while (231Pa)/(235U) activity ratios are elevated and somewhat more variable. Age constraints suggest that these lavas, from the most robust volcanic edifices in the MARK area, are 10000-20000 yr old. The age data are used to evaluate the efficacy of commonly used age estimate scales based on qualitative indicators (e.g. sediment cover, glass quality) and to begin to quantify the temporal and spatial dependence of volcanic, tectonic and hydrothermal processes at slow-spreading oceanic ridges.

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