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Mantle Heterogeneity and Melting Processes in the South China Sea: Thermal and Melting Models Constrained by Oceanic Crustal Thickness and Basalt Geochemistry

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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020JB020735

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41890813, 91628301]
  2. Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) [GML2019ZD0205]
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences [Y4SL021001, QYZDY-SSW-DQC005, 133244KYSB20180029]
  4. International Exchange Program for Graduate Students of Tongji University [201502, 201801337]
  5. Chinese Scholarship Council [201606260207]
  6. US National Science Foundation [OCE-14-58,201]
  7. China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences

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The study investigates mantle heterogeneity and basin evolution in the South China Sea by simulating mantle flow, thermal structure, and melting processes beneath the ridge axis. The results suggest that crustal thickness, mantle potential temperature, source composition, and melt migration patterns all contribute to the variability in mantle composition within the basin. Additionally, the eastern and southwest subbasins exhibit different mantle sources, with the eastern basin showing contamination by lower continental crust.
We simulate mantle flow, thermal structure, and melting processes beneath the ridge axis of the South China Sea (SCS), combining the nominally anhydrous melting and fractional crystallization model, to study mantle heterogeneity and basin evolution. The model results are constrained by seismically determined crustal thickness and major element composition of fossil ridge axis basalts. The effects of half-spreading rate, mantle potential temperature, mantle source composition, and the pattern of melt migration on the crustal thickness and magma chemical composition are systematically investigated. For the SCS, the east and southwest (SW) subbasins have comparable crustal thickness, but the east subbasin has higher FeO and Na2O contents compared to the SW subbasin. The estimated best fitting mantle potential temperatures in the east and SW subbasins are 1,360 +/- 15 degrees C and 1,350 +/- 25 degrees C, respectively. The mantle in the east subbasin (site U1431) prior to the cessation of seafloor spreading is composed primarily of the depleted mid-ocean ridge basalt mantle (DMM), and is slightly contaminated by eclogite/pyroxenite-rich component. However, the mantle source composition of the SW subbasin (sites U1433 and U1434) contains a small percentage (2-5%) of lower continental crust. Basalt samples at the northern margin of the east subbasin (site U1500) shows similar chemical characteristics with that of the SW subbasin. We suggest that the basin-scale variability in the mantle heterogeneity of the SCS can be explained by a single model in which the contamination by the lower continental crust is gradually diluted by melting of DMM as the ridge moves away from the rifted margin.

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