Deccan plume,lithosphere rifting,and volcanism in Kutch,India |
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| Authors: | Gautam Sen Michael Bizimis Reshmi Das Dalim K Paul Arijit Ray Sanjib Biswas |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Powai-400076, Maharashtra, India;2. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, GD 510640, China;3. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of GeoSciences, Beijing, China;4. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;5. Pegaso University, Piazza Trieste e Trento 48, 80132 Napoli, Italy;6. Norwest Italia Srl, 80138 Napoli, Italy;7. CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, Telangana, India |
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| Abstract: | Kutch (northwest India) experienced lithospheric thinning due to rifting and tholeiitic and alkalic volcanism related to the Deccan Traps K/T boundary event. Alkalic lavas, containing mantle xenoliths, form plug-like bodies that are aligned along broadly east–west rift faults. The mantle xenoliths are dominantly spinel wehrlite with fewer spinel lherzolite. Wehrlites are inferred to have formed by reaction between transient carbonatite melts and lherzolite forming the lithosphere. The alkalic lavas are primitive (Mg# = 64–72) relative to the tholeiites (Mg# = 38–54), and are enriched in incompatible trace elements. Isotope and trace element compositions of the tholeiites are similar to what are believed to be the crustally contaminated Deccan tholeiites from elsewhere in India. In terms of Hf, Nd, Sr, and Pb isotope ratios, all except two alkalic basalts plot in a tight cluster that largely overlap the Indian Ridge basalts and only slightly overlap the field of Reunion lavas. This suggests that the alkalic magmas came largely from the asthenosphere mixed with Reunion-like source that welled up beneath the rifted lithosphere. The two alkalic outliers have an affinity toward Group I kimberlites and may have come from an old enriched (metasomatized) asthenosphere. We present a new model for the metasomatism and rifting of the Kutch lithosphere, and magma generation from a CO2-rich lherzolite mantle. In this model the earliest melts are carbonatite, which locally metasomatized the lithosphere. Further partial melting of CO2-rich lherzolite at about 2–2.5 GPa from a mixed source of asthenosphere and Reunion-like plume material produced the alkalic melts. Such melts ascended along deep lithospheric rift faults, while devolatilizing and exploding their way up through the lithosphere. Tholeiites may have been generated from the main plume head further south of Kutch. |
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