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Prolonged Magmatic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Igneous Province Revealed by a Diving Submersible Survey |
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| Authors: | Mauffret Alain Leroy Sylvie Vila Jean-Marie Hallot Erwan Mercier de Lépinay Bernard Duncan Robert A |
| Institution: | (1) Département de Géotectonique, CNRS ESA 7072, Université P. et M. Curie, Paris, France;(2) Lab. de Géologie Sédimentaire et Paléontologie, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France;(3) Géosciences Rennes, Université de Rennes, France;(4) UMR-GeoAzur, Valbonne, France;(5) College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA |
| Abstract: | Using the diving submersible survey NAUTICA we investigated the central part of the Caribbean large igneous province (CLIP) to observe and sample internal portions of this proposed oceanic plateau. Most of the samples are gabbroic and doleritic rocks; basalts are scarce. Radiometric dating by 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating experiments indicate that the intrusive rocks are Campanian in age (81–75 Ma). In some places these intrusive rocks underlie older Santonian (85–83 Ma) extrusive basaltic rocks, suggesting that the Campanian rocks represent a sill injection and an underplating episode. Results of the diving program supplemented by information from ODP and DSDP drilling sites document a 20 m.y. period (94–75 Ma) of igneous activity in the submerged portion of the Caribbean large igneous province (CLIP). In the northern part of the Beata Ridge late Campanian and/or post Campanian uplift is documented by prominent Maastrichtian (71–65 Ma) erosion and the establishment of a Paleocene-middle Eocene (65–49 Ma) carbonate platform. During and after the uplift an extensional period is indicated by seismic images and the subsidence (3 km depth) of the carbonate platform. Paleocene ages (55–56 Ma) determined on some volcanic samples are attributed to localised decompression mantle melting that accompanied the extension. We document a prolonged period of magmatic and tectonic events that do not fit with the current models of short-lived plateau formation during mantle plume initiation but shares many similarities with the constructional histories of other oceanic large igneous provinces. |
| Keywords: | Large Igneous Province Carillean Plate diving |
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