Hafnium isotopic variations in East Atlantic intraplate volcanism |
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| Authors: | Jörg Geldmacher Kaj Hoernle Barry B Hanan Janne Blichert-Toft F Hauff James B Gill Hans-Ulrich Schmincke |
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| Institution: | 1.Integrated Ocean Drilling Program,Texas A&M University,College Station,USA;2.Department of Geology and Geophysics, MS3115,Texas A&M University,College Station,USA;3.IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften,Kiel,Germany;4.Department of Geological Sciences,San Diego State University,San Diego,USA;5.Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre,Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon,Lyon,France;6.Earth & Planetary Sciences Department,University of California Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz,USA |
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| Abstract: | The broad belt of intraplate volcanism in the East Atlantic between 25° and 37° N is proposed to have formed by two adjacent
hotspot tracks (the Madeira and Canary tracks) that possess systematically different isotopic signatures reflecting different
mantle source compositions. To test this model, Hf isotope ratios from volcanic rocks from all individual islands and all
major seamounts are presented in this study. In comparison with published Nd isotope variations (6 εNd units), 176Hf/177Hf ratios span a much larger range (14 εHf units). Samples from the proposed Madeira hotspot track have the most radiogenic
Hf isotopic compositions (176Hf/177Hfm up to 0.283335), extending across the entire field for central Atlantic MORB. They form a relatively narrow, elongated trend
on the Nd vs. Hf isotope diagram (stretching over > 10 εHf units) between a depleted N-MORB-like endmember and a moderately
enriched composition located on, or slightly below, the Nd–Hf mantle array, which overlaps the proposed “C” mantle component
of Hanan and Graham (1996). In contrast, all samples from the Canary hotspot track plot below the mantle array (176Hf/177Hfm = 0.282943–0.283067) and form a much denser cluster with less compositional variation (~4 εHf units). The cluster falls between
(1) a low Hf isotope HIMU-like endmember, (2) a more depleted composition, and (3) the moderately enriched end of the Madeira
trend. The new Hf isotope data confirm the general geochemical distinction of the Canary and Madeira domains in the East Atlantic.
Both domains, however, seem to share a common, moderately enriched endmember that has “C”-like isotope compositions and is
believed to represent subducted, <1-Ga-old oceanic lithosphere (oceanic crust and possibly minor sediment addition). The lower
176Hf/177Hf ratio of the enriched, HIMU-like Canary domain endmember indicates the contribution of oceanic lithosphere with somewhat
older recycling ages of ≥1 Ga. |
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