Magmagenesis at Soufriere volcano St Vincent, Lesser Antilles Arc

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1721-1764

  Heath, Emily ^a   Macdonald, Ray ^a   Belkin, Harvey ^b   Hawkesworth, Chris ^c   Sigurdsson, Haraldur ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalt; Geochemistry; High MgO arc magmas; Lesser antilles; Magmagenesis; Magmatism; Saint Vincent and the Srenadines; Soufriere St Vincent; Volcano

Indexed keywords

BASALT; MAGMATISM; VOLCANO;

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES;

EID: 0032448405     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petroj/39.10.1721     Document Type: Article

References (110)

1. 2. American Mineralogist 63, 307-314.
2. Anderson, A. T. (1979). Water in some hypersthenic magmas. Journal of Geology 87, 509-531.
3. Arculus, R. J. (1994). Aspects of magma genesis in arcs. Lithos 33, 189-208.
4. Arculus, R.J. & Wills, K. J. A. (1980). The petrology of plutonic blocks and inclusions from the Lesser Antilles island arc. Journal of Petrology 21, 743-799.
5. Baker, P. E. (1968). Petrology of Mt. Misery volcano, St. Kitts, West Indies. Lithos 1, 124-150.
6. Baker, P. E. (1972). The Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent and its 1971-72 eruption. Journal of Earth Sciences, Leeds 8, 205-217.
7. Baker, D. R. & Eggler, D. H. (1983). Fractionation paths of Atka (Aleutians) high-alumina basalts: constraints from phase relations. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 18, 387-404.
8. Baker, D. R. & Eggler, D. H. (1987). Compositions of anhydrous and hydrous melts coexisting with plagioclase, augite, and olivine or low-Ca pyroxene from 1 atm to 8 kbar - application to the Aleutian volcanic center of Atka. American Mineralogist 72, 12-28.
9. Ballhaus, C., Berry, R. F. & Green, D. H. (1991). High pressure experimental calibration of the olivine-orthopyroxene-spinel oxygen geobarometer: implications for the oxidation state of the mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 107, 27-40. [Correction (1994) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 118, 109.]
10. Ballhaus, C., Berry, R. F. & Green, D. H. (1991). High pressure experimental calibration of the olivine-orthopyroxene-spinel oxygen geobarometer: implications for the oxidation state of the mantle. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 107, 27-40. [Correction (1994) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 118, 109.]
11. Bardintzeff, J.-M. (1984). Les pyroxènes et leurs inclusions, marqueurs privilégiés des nuées ardentes (Saint-Vincent, Antilles, 1979). Bulletin Minéralogique 107, 41-54.
12. Bardintzeff, J.-M. (1992). Magma mixing processes in volcanic contexts, a thermodynamic approach with the examples of St. Vincent Soufriere volcano, West Indies and Cerro Chiquito, Guatemala. Terra Nova 4, 553-566.
13. Barsdell, M. & Berry, R. F. (1990). Origin and evolution of primitive island arc ankaramites from western Epi, Vanuatu. Journal of Petrology 31, 747-777.
14. Boynton, C. H., Westbrook, G. K., Bott, M. H. P. & Long, R. E. (1979). A seismic refraction investigation of crustal structure beneath the Lesser Antilles island arc. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 58, 371-393.
15. Briden, J. C., Rex, D. C., Faller, A. M. & Tomblin, J. F. (1979). K-Ar geochronology and palaeomagnetism of volcanic rocks in the Lesser Antilles island arc. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A 291, 485-528.
16. Brown, G. M., Holland, J. G., Sigurdsson, H., Tomblin J. F. & Arculus, R. J. (1977). Geochemistry of the Lesser Antilles volcanic island arc. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 41, 785-801.
17. Bryan, W. B., Finger, L. W. & Chayes, F. (1969). Estimating proportions in petrographic mixing equations by least-squares approximation. Science 163, 926-927.
18. Carey, S. N. & Sigurdsson, H. (1978). Deep-sea evidence for distribution of tephra from the mixed magma eruption of the Soufriere on St Vincent, 1902: ash turbidites and air fall. Geology 6, 271-274.
19. Carron, J.-P. & Le Guen de Kerneizon, M. (1991). Carbon dioxide release through metamorphism of tuffitic limestones in a magma chamber: the case of Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Bulletin de la Societé Géologique de France 162, 1029-1035.
20. 2O under 5 kb pressure. Journal of Petrology 17, 44-72.
21. Cawthorn, R. G. & O'Hara, M. J. (1976). Amphibole fractionation in calc-alkaline magma series. American Journal of Science 276, 309-329.
22. Crawford, A. J., Falloon, T. J. & Eggins, S. (1987). The origin of island arc high-alumina basalts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 97, 417-430.
23. Davidson, J. P. (1984). Petrogenesis of Lesser Antilles island arc magmas: isotopic and geochemical constraints. Ph.D. Thesis, Leeds University.
24. Davidson, J. P. (1985). Mechanisms of contamination in Lesser Antilles island arc magmas from radiogenic and oxygen isotopic relationships. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 72, 163-174.
25. Davidson, J. P. (1986). Isotopic and trace element constraints on the petrogenesis of subduction-related lavas from Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 5943-5962.
26. Davidson, J. P. (1987). Crustal contamination versus subduction zone enrichment: examples from the Lesser Antilles and implications for mantle source compositions of island arc volcanic rocks. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 51, 2185-2198.
27. Davidson, J. P. & Harmon, R. S. (1989). Oxygen isotopic constraints on the petrogenesis of volcanic arc magmas from Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 95, 255-270.
28. Davidson, J. P., Boghossian, N. D. & Wilson, M. (1993). The geochemistry of the igneous rock suite of St. Martin, Northern Lesser Antilles. Journal of Petrology 34, 839-866.
29. Devine, J. D. (1995). Petrogenesis of the basalt-andesite-dacite association of Grenada, Lesser Antilles island arc, revisited. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 69, 1-33.
30. Devine, J. D. & Sigurdsson, H. (1980). Garnet-fassaite calc-silicate nodule from La Soufriere, St. Vincent. American Mineralogist 65, 302-305.
31. Devine, J. D. & Sigurdsson, H. (1983). The liquid composition and crystallization history of the 1979 Soufriere magma, St. Vincent, W.I. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 16, 1-31.
32. Dostal, J., Dupuy, C., Carron, J. P., Le Guen de Kerneizon, M. & Maury, R. C. (1983). Partition coefficients of trace elements: application to volcanic rocks of St. Vincent, West Indies. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 47, 525-533.
33. Eggins, S. M. (1993). Origin and differentiation of picritic arc magmas, Ambae (Aoba), Vanuatu. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 114, 79-100.
34. Falloon, T. J., Green, D. H., Hatton, C. J. & Harris, K. L. (1988). Anhydrous partial melting of a fertile and depleted peridotite from 2 to 30 kbars and application to basalt petrogenesis. Journal of Petrology 29, 1257-1282.
35. Feeley, T. C. & Davidson, J. P. (1994). Petrology of calc-alkaline lavas at Volcán Ollagüe and the origin of compositional diversity at central Andean stratovolcanoes. Journal of Petrology 35, 1295-1340.
36. Fiske, R. S. & Shepherd, J. B. (1982). Deformation studies on Soufriere, St. Vincent, between 1977 and 1981. Science 216, 1125-1126.
37. Fiske, R. S. & Shepherd, J. B. (1990). Twelve years of ground-tilt measurements on the Soufriere of St. Vincent, 1977-1989. Bulletin Volcanalogique 52, 227-241.
38. Foden, J. D. & Green, D. H. (1992). Possible role for amphibole in the origin of andesite: some experimental and natural evidence. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 109, 479-493.
39. Gaetani, G. A., Grove, T. L. & Bryan, W. B. (1993). The influence of water on the subduction-related igneous rocks. Nature 365, 332-334.
40. Gill, J. (1981). Orogenic Andesites and Plate. Tectonics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 390 pp.
41. Graham, A. M. (1980). Genesis of the igneous rock suites of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Ph.D. Thesis, Edinburgh University.
42. Graham, A. M. & Thirlwall, M. F. (1981). Petrology of the 1979 eruption of Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 76, 336-342.
43. Grove, T. L. (1993). Origin of calc-alkaline series lavas at Medicine Lake volcano by fractionation, assimilation and mixing - corrections and clarifications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 114, 422-424.
44. Grove, T. L. & Baker, M. B. (1984). Phase equilibrium controls on the tholeiitic versus calc-alkaline differentiation trends. Journal of Geophysical Research 89, 3253-3274.
45. Grove, T. L. & Bryan, W. B. (1983). Fractionation of pyroxene-phyric MORB at low pressure: an experimental study. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 84, 293-309.
46. Hawkesworth, C. J., O'Nions, R. K. & Arculus, R. J. (1979). Nd-and Sr-isotope geochemistry of island arc volcanics, Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 45, 237-248.
47. Hawkesworth, C. J., Turner, S. P., Peate, D., McDermott, F. & van Calsteren, P. (1997). Elemental U and Th variations in island arc rocks: implications for U-series isotopes. Chemical Geology 139, 207-221.
48. Helz, R. T. (1982). Phase relations and compositions of amphiboles produced in studies of the melting behaviour of rocks. In: Veblen, D. R. & Ribbe, P. H. (eds) Amphiboles: Petrology and Experimental Phase Relations. Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy 9B, 279-353.
49. Hunter, A. G. & Blake, S. (1995). Petrogenetic evolution of a transitional tholeiitic-calc-alkaline series: Towada volcano, Japan. Journal of Petrology 36, 1579-1605.
50. Irvine, T. N. & Baragar, W. R. A. (1971). A guide to the chemical classification of the common volcanic rocks. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 8, 523-548.
51. Johnston, A. D. & Draper, D. S. (1992). Near-liquidus phase relations of an anhydrous high-magnesia basalt from the Aleutian Islands: implications for arc magma genesis and ascent. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 52, 27-11.
52. Kennedy, A. K., Grove. T. L. & Johnson, R. W. (1990). Experimental and major element constraints on the evolution of lavas from Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 104, 722-734.
53. 3 from high-MgO basalt. Journal of Petrology 35, 1-41.
54. Kilinc, A., Carmichael, I. S. E., Rivers, M. L. & Sack, R. O. (1983). The ferric-ferrous ratio of natural silicate liquids equilibrated in air. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 83, 136-140.
55. Kudo, A. M. & Weill, D. F. (1970). An igneous plagioclase thermometer. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 25, 52-65.
56. Kushiro, I. (1969). The system forsterite-diopside-silica with and without water at high pressures. American Journal of Science 267A, 269-294.
57. LeBas, M. J., LeMaitre, R. W., Streckeisen, A. & Zanettin, B. (1986). A chemical classification of volcanic rocks based on the total alkali-silica diagram. Journal of Petrology 27, 745-750.
58. Lewis, J. F. (1973a). Petrology of the ejected plutonic blocks of the Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent, West Indies. Journal of Petrology 14, 81-112.
59. Lewis, J. F. (1973b). Mineralogy of the ejected blocks of the Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent: olivine, pyroxene, amphibole and magnetite paragenesis. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 38, 197-220.
60. Lindsley, D. H. (1980). Phase equilibria of pyroxenes at pressures >1 atmosphere. In: Prewitt, C. T. (ed.) Pyroxenes. Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy 7, 289-306.
61. Lindsley, D. H. (1983). Pyroxene thermometry. American Mineralogist 68, 477-493.
62. Martin-Lauzer, F. R., Ingrin, J. & Porier, J. P. (1986). Transmission electron microscopic study of the immiscibility in natural and synthetic rhyolitic glasses. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 79, 168-178.
63. McDonough, W. F., Sun, S. S., Ringwood, A. E., Jagoutz, E. & Hofmann, A. W. (1992). K, Rb and Cs in the Earth and Moon and the evolution of the mantle of the Earth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acts 56, 1001-1012.
64. Middlemost, E. A. K. (1989). Iron oxidation ratios, norms and the classification of volcanic rocks. Chemical Geology 77, 19-26.
65. Miller, D. M., Langmuir, C. H., Goldstein, S. L. & Franks, A. L. (1992). The importance of parental magma composition to calc-alkaline and tholeiitic evolution - evidence from Umnak island in the Aleutians. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 97, 321-343.
66. Miyashiro, A. (1974). Volcanic rock series in island arcs and active continental margins. American Journal of Science 274, 321-355.
67. Nakamura, N. (1974). Determination of REE, Ba, Fe, Mg, Na and K in carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 38, 757-775.
68. Pearce, J. A. (1983). Role of the sub-continental lithosphere in magma genesis at active continental margins. In: Hawkesworth, C. J. & Norry, M. J. (eds.) Continental Basalts and Mantle Xenoliths. Nantwich, UK: Shiva, pp. 230-249.
69. Pearce, J. A. & Parkinson, I. J. (1993). Trace element models for mantle melting: applications to volcanic arc petrogenesis. In: Prichard, H. M., Alabaster, T., Harris, N. B. W. & Neary, C. R. (eds) Magmatic Processes and Plate Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 76, 373-403.
70. Perfit, M. R., Gust, D. A., Bence, A. E., Arculus, R. J. & Taylor, S. R. (1980). Chemical characteristics of island arc basalts: implications for mantle sources. Chemical Geology 30, 227-256.
71. Pindell, J. L., Cande, S. C., Pitman III, W. C., Rowley, D. B., Dewey, J. F., LaBrecque, J. & Haxby, W. (1988). A plate-kinematic framework for models of Caribbean evolution. Tectonophysics 155, 121-138.
72. Pushkar, P., Steuber, A. M., Tomblin. J. F. & Julian, G. M. (1973). Strontium isotopic ratios in volcanic rocks from St. Vincent and St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Geophysical Research 78, 1279-1287.
73. Rea, W. J (1974). The volcanic geology and petrology of Montserrat, West Indies. Journal of the Geological Society, London 130, 341-366.
74. Rickwood, P. C. (1989). Boundary lines within petrologic diagrams which use oxides of major and minor elements. Lithos 22, 247-263.
75. Romnick, J. D., Mahlburg Kay, S. & Kay, R. W. (1992). The influence of amphibole fractionation on the evolution of calc-alkaline andesite and dacite tephra from the central Aleutians, Alaska. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 112, 101-118.
76. Roobol, M. J. & Smith, A. L. (1975). A comparison of the recent eruptions of Mt. Pelée, Martinique and Soufriere, St. Vincent. Bulletin Volcanologigue 39, 214-240.
77. Rowley, K. (1978). Late pyroclastic deposits of Soufriere volcano, West Indies. Geological Society of America Bulletin 89, 825-835.
78. Saunders, A. D. & Tarney, J. (1984). Geochemical characteristics of basaltic volcanism within back-arc basins. In: Kokelaar, B. P. & Howells, M. F. (eds) Marginal Basin Geology. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 16, 59-76.
79. Saunders, A. D., Norry, M. J. & Tarney, J. (1988). Origin of MORB and chemically depleted mantle reservoirs: trace element constraints. Journal of Petrology Special Lithosphere Issue, 415-445.
80. Shepherd, J. B., Aspinall, W. P., Rowley, K. C., Pereira, J., Sigurdsson, H., Fiske, R. S. & Tomblin, J. F. (1979). The eruption of Soufriere volcano, St. Vincent, April-June 1979. Nature 282, 24-28.
81. Sigurdsson, H. & Carey, S. (1991). Caribbean volcanoes: a field guide. Geological Association of Canada, Mineralogical Association of Canada, Society of Economic Geologists. Joint Annual Meeting, Toronto 1991, Field Trip B1: Guidebook, 101 pp.
82. Sigurdsson, H., Macdonald, R., Harkness. D. D., Pringle, M. S., Robertson, R. A. E. & Heath, E. (1998). Volcanic history of the Soufriere of St Vincent. Bulletin of Volcanology, submitted.
83. Sisson, T. W. (1994). Hornblende-melt trace element partitioning measured by ion microprobe. Chemical Geology 117, 331-344.
84. 2O in calc-alkaline differentiation and subduction zone magmatism. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 113, 143-166.
85. 2O contents of low-MgO high-alumina basalts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 113, 167-184.
86. 2O in basalt and basaltic andesite glass inclusions from four subduction-related volcanoes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 17, 619-635.
87. Smith, A. L. & Roobol, M. J. (1990). Mt. Pelée, Martinique; a study of an active island-arc volcano. Geological Society of America, Memoir 175, 105 pp.
88. Smith, T. E., Thirlwall, M. F. & MacPherson, C. (1996). Trace element and isotope geochemistry of the volcanic rocks of Bequia, Grenadine Islands, Lesser Antilles arc: a study of subduction enrichment and intra-crustal contamination. Journal of Petrology 37, 117-143.
89. Sobolev, A. V. & Danyushevsky, L. V. (1994). Petrology and geochemistry of boninites from the north termination of the Tonga trench: constraints on the generation conditions of primary high-Ca boninite magmas. Journal of Petrology 35, 1183-1211.
90. Spulber, S. D. & Rutherford, M. J. (1983). The origin of rhyolite and plagiogranite in oceanic crust: an experimental study. Journal of Petrology 24, 1-25.
91. Stolper, E. & Newman, S. (1994). The role of water in the petrogenesis of Mariana trough magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 121, 293-325.
92. Sun, S. S. (1980). Lead isotopic study of young volcanic rocks from mid-ocean ridges, ocean islands and island arcs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A 297, 409-445.
93. Tatsumi, Y. & Eggins, S. (1995). Subduction Zone Magmatism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Science, Inc., 211 pp.
94. Thirlwall, M. F. & Graham, A. M. (1984). Evolution of high-Ca, high-Sr C-series basalts from Grenada, Lesser Antilles: contamination in the arc crust. Journal of the Geological Society, London 141, 427-145.
95. Thirlwall, M. F., Smith, T. E., Graham, A. M., Theodorou, N., Hollings, P., Davidson, J. P. & Arculus, R. J. (1994). High field strength element anomalies in arc lavas: source or process? Journal of Petrology 35, 819-838.
96. Thirlwall, M. F., Graham, A. M., Arculus, R. J., Harmon, R. S. & MacPherson, C. G. (1996). Resolution of the effects of crustal assimilation, sediment subduction and fluid transport in island arc magmas: Pb-Sr-Nd-O isotope geochemistry of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 4785-4810.
97. Tomblin, J. F. (1968). Chemical analyses of volcanic rocks from the Lesser Antilles. Special Publication of the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit 15, 23 pp.
98. Tormey, D. R., Grove, T. L. & Bryan, W. B. (1987). Experimental petrology of normal MORB near the Kane Fracture Zone: 22°-25°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 96, 121-139.
99. Turner, S., Hawkesworth, C. J., van Calsteren, P., Heath, E., Macdonald, R. & Black, S. (1996). U-series isotopes and destructive plate margin magma genesis in the Lesser Antilles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 142, 191-207.
100. 2+-Mg cation-partitioning between olivine and basaltic liquid on pressure, temperature and composition: an experimental study to 30 kbars. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 101, 261-273.
101. Wadge, G. (1986). The dykes and structural setting of the volcanic front in the Lesser Antilles island arc. Bulletin Volcanologique 48, 349-372.
102. 3 Lake Basalt from Medicine Lake volcano, California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 121, 210-216.
103. Wakita, H., Rey, P. & Schmitt, R. A. (1971). Abundances of the 14 rare-earth elements and twelve other trace elements in Apollo 12 samples: five igneous and one breccia rocks and four soils. Proceedings of the 2nd Lunar Science Conference. Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 1319-1329.
104. Walker, D., Shibara, T. & DeLong, S. E. (1979). Abyssal tholeiites from the Oceanographer fracture zone. II. Phase equilibria and mixing. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 70, 111-125.
105. Westercamp, D. & Mervoyer, B. (1976). Les séries volcaniques de la Martinique et de la Guadeloupe (F.W.L). Bulletin du Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Section IV 4, 229-242.
106. White, W. M. & Dupré, B. (1986). Sediment subduction and magma genesis in the Lesser Antilles: isotopic and trace element constraints. Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 5927-5941.
107. White, W. M. & Patchett, J. (1984). Hf-Nd-Sr isotopes and incompatible element abundances in island arcs: implications for magma origins and crust-mantle evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 67, 167-185.
108. Wills, K. J. A. (1974). Geological history of southern Dominica. Ph.D. Thesis, Durham University.
109. Wood, B. J. (1991). Oxygen barometry of spinel peridotites. In: Lindsley, D. H. (ed.) Oxide Minerals: Petrologic and Magmatic Significance. Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy 25, 417-443.
110. Wood, B. J. & Banno, S. (1973). Garnet-orthopyroxene and ortho-pyroxene-clinopyroxene relationships in simple and complex systems. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 42, 109-124.