Lead isotopes in island arcs |
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| Authors: | R L Armstrong J A Cooper |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geology and Geophysics Yale University, 06520, New Haven, Connecticut
2. Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, A. C. T., Australia
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| Abstract: | New lead isotope data for calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from New Zealand and the Lesser Antilles, combined with published data for Japan and the Andes, show that the spread of isotopic composition in each volcanic arc region is small (2–4% range in Pb206/Pb204) compared to the range of values observed (8%). Pb207 and Pb206 increase systematically from Japan to the Andes to New Zealand to the Caribbean. Likewise Pb208 and Pb206 are positively correlated, but there is evidence of long term (108 m.y.) differences of Th/U between the regions studied. The apparent U/Pb ratios of Peruvian, New Zealand and Caribbean calc-alkaline volcanics do not differ greatly from the apparent ratio for the single stage growth curve for stratiform Pb ores. In contrast the apparent U/Pb ratios for Japanese calc-alkaline volcanics are distinctly lower. Although the Japanese Pb has model ages near zero, the other volcanic arcs have negative (future) model ages, the Caribbean samples being most extreme in this respect. Published oceanic volcanic and sediment lead isotopic composition data and the new results are consistent with a model of volcanic arc evolution in which oceanic sediments are dragged into the mantle, mixed to some degree with mantle material, and partially melted to form calc-alkaline magmas. Either constant continental volume or continental growth are compatible with this process. The mixing of two separate « frequently mixed » leads is the minimum complexity required to explain volcanic are leads. Mathematically there are probably no single-stage leads but isotopic homogenization during earth history has caused lead isotopes to closely approximate a single stage growth. The use of lead isotopic composition as a « tracer » suggests that mantle — crust geochemical evolution involves an exchange of material and is not simply a one-way process. The Pb isotopic composition of the Auckland, New Zealand alkali basalts is apparently the result of incomplete mixing of two leads to give a linear array of Pb207/Pb204-Pb206/Pb204 data with negative slope. |
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