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GEOLOGY
卷 35, 期 7, 页码 595-598出版社
GEOLOGICAL SOC AMER, INC
DOI: 10.1130/G23741A.1
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large igneous provinces; Early Cretaceous; Manihiki Plateau; Pacific Ocean; geochemistry; geochronology
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Numerous large igneous provinces formed in the Pacific Ocean during Early Cretaceous time, but their origins and relations are poorly understood. We present new geochronological and geochemical data on rocks from the Manihiki Plateau and compare these results to those for other Cretaceous Pacific plateaus. A dredged Manihiki basalt gives an 40Ar-39Ar age of 117.9 +/- 3.5 Ma (2 sigma), essentially contemporaneous with the Ontong Java Plateau similar to 2500 km to the west, and the possibly related Hikurangi Plateau similar to 3000 km to the south. Drilled Manihiki lavas are tholefitic with incompatible trace element abundances similar to those of Ontong Java basalts. These lavas may result from high degrees of partial melting during the main eruptive phase of plateau formation. There are two categories of dredged lavas from the Danger Islands Troughs, which bisect the plateau. The first is alkalic lavas having strong enrichments in light rare earth and largeion lithophile elements; these lavas may represent late-stage activity, as one sample yields an 40Ar-39Ar age of 99.5 +/- 0.7 Ma. The second category consists of tholefitic basalts with U-shaped incompatible trace element patterns and unusually low abundances of several elements; these basalts record a mantle component not previously observed in Manihiki, Ontong Java, or Hikurangi lavas. Their trace element characteristics may result from extensive melting of depleted mantle wedge material mixed with small amounts of volcaniclastic sediment. We are unaware of comparable basalts elsewhere.
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