TY - JOUR
T1 - Insights into the petrogenesis of an intraplate volcanic province: Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotope geochemistry of the Bathymetrists Seamount Province, eastern equatorial Atlantic
AU - Long, Xiaojun
AU - Van der Zwan, Froukje M.
AU - Geldmacher, Jörg
AU - Hoernle, Kaj
AU - Hauff, Folkmar
AU - Garbe-Schönberg, C.-Dieter
AU - Augustin, Nico
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-01-12
Acknowledgements: We thank Captain Ralf Schmidt and his crew for their support during the MSM70 cruise, the Leitstelle Deutsche Forschungschiffe for the organization of the cruise and the MSM70 scientific party for their help in obtaining the samples. In addition, we are very grateful to Silke Hauff, Karin Junge, Marcus Gutjahr (all GEOMAR) and Ulrike Westernströer (Kiel University) for their help with the sample analysis. X.L. was funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC, funding reference number: [2015]0672). Analytical work was funded by the DFG (MSM70 initial postcruise funding) and GEOMAR. We thank Catherine Chauvel for editorial handling of this manuscript and Dennis Geist, Tyrone Rooney and one anonymous reviewer for providing constructive reviews.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Unlike the well-studied narrow hotspot tracks, the origin of broadly distributed seamount provinces remains a topic of conjecture. Here we present major and trace element and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb double spike isotope data of a comprehensive sample suite from the Bathymetrists Seamount Province, a broad belt of submarine volcanoes in the eastern equatorial Atlantic, and from the neighboring Cape Verde Ridge, a topographic high on the shoulder of a local fracture zone. The major and trace element results are consistent with the Bathymetrists Seamount Province having formed in an intraplate setting. The isotopic composition of the seamount lavas resemble a HIMU-like signature (206Pb/204Pbin = 19.23–20.35) similar to the nearby St. Helena hotspot composition. Based on plate tectonic reconstructions, a formation of the Bathymetrists Seamount Province by the postulated Sierra Leone plume, believed to be responsible for the geochemical anomaly at the mid ocean ridge at 1.7°N and the nearby St. Peter and Pauls rocks, is not supported. An alternative model that the Bathymetrists Seamount Province was created by edge driven convection in the upper mantle along the boundary of the neighboring Sierra Leone Rise plateau is also not supported by the available data. Plate tectonic reconstructions, however, are consistent with a hotspot origin for the Bathymetrists Seamount Province, as is the presence of a seismic tomographic anomaly at the southwest end of the seamount belt.
AB - Unlike the well-studied narrow hotspot tracks, the origin of broadly distributed seamount provinces remains a topic of conjecture. Here we present major and trace element and Sr-Nd-Hf-Pb double spike isotope data of a comprehensive sample suite from the Bathymetrists Seamount Province, a broad belt of submarine volcanoes in the eastern equatorial Atlantic, and from the neighboring Cape Verde Ridge, a topographic high on the shoulder of a local fracture zone. The major and trace element results are consistent with the Bathymetrists Seamount Province having formed in an intraplate setting. The isotopic composition of the seamount lavas resemble a HIMU-like signature (206Pb/204Pbin = 19.23–20.35) similar to the nearby St. Helena hotspot composition. Based on plate tectonic reconstructions, a formation of the Bathymetrists Seamount Province by the postulated Sierra Leone plume, believed to be responsible for the geochemical anomaly at the mid ocean ridge at 1.7°N and the nearby St. Peter and Pauls rocks, is not supported. An alternative model that the Bathymetrists Seamount Province was created by edge driven convection in the upper mantle along the boundary of the neighboring Sierra Leone Rise plateau is also not supported by the available data. Plate tectonic reconstructions, however, are consistent with a hotspot origin for the Bathymetrists Seamount Province, as is the presence of a seismic tomographic anomaly at the southwest end of the seamount belt.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/666861
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0009254120301388
U2 - 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119599
DO - 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119599
M3 - Article
VL - 544
SP - 119599
JO - Chemical Geology
JF - Chemical Geology
SN - 0009-2541
ER -