期刊
BULLETIN OF VOLCANOLOGY
卷 77, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-015-0932-0
关键词
Volcanism; Deccan Traps; Flood basalt; Dyke swarms; India; Saurashtra
资金
- Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre (IIT Bombay) [09YIA001]
- Italian MIUR (PRIN)
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [15-05-05130]
- Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) [IR/S4/ESF-04/2003]
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India
The Central Saurashtra mafic dyke swarm in the northwestern Deccan Traps contains a few picrites, several subalkalic basalts and basaltic andesites, and an andesite. We have obtained precise 40Ar/39Ar ages of 65.6 +/- 0.2 Ma, 66.6 +/- 0.3, and 62.4 +/- 0.3 Ma (2 sigma errors) for three of the dykes, indicating the emplacement of the swarm over several million years. Mineral chemical and whole-rock major and trace element and Sr-Nd isotopic data show that fractional crystallization and crystal accumulation were important processes. Except for two dykes (with epsilon(Nd)t values of -8.2 and -12.3), the magmas were only moderately contaminated by continental crust. The late-emplaced (62.4 Ma) basalt dyke has compositional characteristics (low La/Sm and Th/Nb, high eNdt of +4.3) suggesting little or no crustal contamination. Most dykes are low-Ti and a few high-Ti, and these contrasting Ti types cannot be produced by fractional crystallization processes but require distinct parental magmas. Some dykes are compositionally homogeneous over tens of kilometers, whereas others are heterogeneous, partly because they were formed by multiple magma injections. The combined field and geochemical data establish the Sardhar dyke as >= 62 km long and the longest in Saurashtra, but this and the other Central Saurasthra dykes cannot have fed any of the hitherto studied lava-flow sequences in Saurashtra, given their very distinct Sr-Nd isotopic compositions. As observed previously, high-Ti lavas and dykes only outcrop eastnortheast of a line joining Rajkot and Palitana, probably because of underlying enriched mantle at similar to 65 Ma.
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