Discovery of hydrothermal sulfide mineralization from southern Kermadec arc volcanoes (SW Pacific)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 335-343

  Wright, I C ^a   De Ronde, C E J ^b   Faure, K ^b,c   Gamble, J A ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calderas; Hydrothermal processes; Kermadec Islands; Massive sulfide deposits

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MINERALIZATION; SEAFLOOR; SULFIDE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032535788     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00225-8     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Halbach P., Nakamura K.I., Washer M., Lange J., Sakai H., Kaeselitz L., Hanse R.D., Yamano M., Post J., Prause B., Seifert R., Michaelis W., Tecichmann F., Kinoshita M., Maerten A., Ishibashi J., Czervinski S., Bulm N. Probable modern analogue of Kuruoko-type massive sulphide deposits in the Okinawa Trough back-arc basin. Nature. 338:1991;497-499.
2. Iizasa I., Yuasa M., Yokota S. Mineralogy and geochemistry of volcanogenic sulfides from the Myojinsho submarine caldera, the Shichito-Iwojima Ridge, Izu-Ogasawara Arc, northwestern Pacific. Mar. Geol. 108:1992;39-58.
3. Bendel V., Auzende J.-M., Lagabriell Y., Grimaud D., Fouquet Y., Urabe T. The White Lady hydrothermal site in the north Fiji Basin (STARMER). Econ. Geol. 88:1993;2237-2249.
4. Fouquet Y., von Stackelberg U., Charlou J.L., Erzinger J., Herzig P., Muhe R., Wiedicke M. Metallogenesis in back-arc environments: the Lau Basin example. Econ. Geol. 88:1993;2154-2181.
5. S.D. Scott, R.A. Binns, Hydrothermal processes and contrasting styles of mineralisation in the western Woodlark and eastern Manus basins of the western Pacific, in: L.M. Parson, C.L. Walker, D.R. Dixon (Eds.), Hydrothermal Vents and Processes, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 87 (1995) 191-205.
6. J. Ishibashi, T. Urabe, Hydrothermal activity related to arc-backarc magmatism in the Western Pacific, in: B. Taylor (Ed.), Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism, Plenum Press, New York, 1995, pp. 451-495.
7. Von Damm K.L. Seafloor hydrothermal activity: black smoker chemistry and chimneys. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 18:1990;173-204.
8. Rona P.A., Scott S.D. A special issue on sea-floor hydrothermal mineralisation: New perspectives - preface. Econ. Geol. 88:1993;1933-1976.
9. Parson L.M., Wright I.C. The Lau-Havre-Taupo back-arc basin: a southward, propagating, multi-stage, evolution from rifting to spreading. Tectonophysics. 263:1996;1-22.
10. J.A. Gamble, I.C. Wright, The southern Havre Trough: Geological structure and magma petrogenesis of an active back-arc rift complex, in: B. Taylor (Ed.), Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism, Plenum Press, New York, 1995, pp. 29-62.
11. J.W. Hedenquist, Geothermal systems in the Taupo volcanic zone: their characteristics and relation to volcanism and mineralisation, in: I.E.M. Smith (Ed.), Late Cenozoic Volcanism in New Zealand, R. Soc. N. Z. Bull. 23, 1986, pp. 7-20.
12. Sarano F., Murphy R.C., Houghton B.F., Hedenquist J.W. Preliminary observations of submarine geothermal activity in the vicinity of White Island volcano, Taupo volcanic zone, New Zealand. J. R. Soc. N.Z. 19:1989;449-459.
13. Propp L.N., Obzhirov A.I., Propp M.V. Gas anomalies and hydrochemical anomalies in bottom water in an area of volcanic activity (Bay of Plenty, New Zealand). Oceanology. 32:1992;463-468.
14. Pantin H.M., Wright I.C. Submarine hydrothermal activity within the offshore Taupo volcanic zone, Bay of Plenty continental shelf, New Zealand. Cont. Shelf Res. 14:1994;1411-1438.
15. Fouquet Y., von Stackelberg U., Charlou J.L., Donval J.P., Foucher J.P., Erzinger J., Herzig P., Muhe R., Wiedicke M., Soakai S., Whitechurch H. Hydrothermal activity in the Lau back-arc basin: Sulfides and water chemistry. Geology. 19:1991;303-306.
16. D.S. Cronan, S.A. Moorby, G.P. Glasby, K.E. Knedler, J. Thomson, Hydrothermal and volcaniclastic sedimentation on the Tonga-Kermadec Ridge and its adjacent marginal basins, in: B.P. Kokelaar, M.F. Howells (Eds.), Marginal Basin Geology, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 16 (1984) 137-149.
17. Craig H., Craig V.K., Kim K.R. PAPTUA Expedition 1: Hydrothermal vent surveys in back-arc basins: The Lau, N. Fiji, Woodlark, and Manus basins and Havre Trough (abstr.). Eos Trans. AGU. 68:1987;100.
18. K.J. Howard, J.A. Gamble, G.P. Glasby, I.C. Wright, Hydrothermal Fe-Mn crusts from the Bay of Plenty and Havre Trough, offshore New Zealand, in: Abstr. Prog. Geol. Soc. Am. Annual Meeting, San Diego, p. A413, 1991.
19. I.C. Wright, J.A. Gamble, C.E.J. de Ronde, Kermadec-Havre submarine caldera: morphology, mode of formation, and sites of hydrothermal mineralisation, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting, 1997 (abstr.).
20. Wright I.C. Nature and tectonic setting of the southern Kermadec submarine arc volcanoes: an overview. Mar. Geol. 118:1994;217-236.
21. Wright I.C. Morphology and evolution of the remnant Colville and active Kermadec arc ridges south of 33°30′S. Mar. Geophys. Res. 19:1997;177-193.
22. Wright I.C., Parson L.M., Gamble J.A. Evolution and interaction of migrating cross-arc volcanism and backarc rifting: An example from the southern Havre Trough (35°20′-37°S). J. Geophys. Res. 101:1996;22071-22086.
23. R. Davis, S. Zisk, M. Simpson, M. Edwards, A. Shor, E. Halter, Hawaii mapping research group: Bathymetric and sidescan data processing, Oceans '93 2 (1993) 449-453.
24. Gamble J.A., Christie R.H.K., Wright I.C., Wysoczanski R.J. Primitive K-rich magmas from Clark volcano, southern Kermadec arc: A paradox in the K-depth relationship. Can. Min. 35:1997;275-290.
25. Segonzac M., de Saint Laurent M., Casanova B. L'enigme du comportement trophie des cervettes Alvinocarididae sites hydrothermaux de la dorsale medio-atlantique. Cah. Biol. Mar. 34:1993;535-571.
26. C.E.J. de Ronde, K. Faure, I.C. Wright, D.A. Chappell, Base and precious metal mineralisation associated with volcanoes of the southern Kermadec arc, New Zealand, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meeting (abstr.) 1997.
27. McMurtry G.M., Sedwick P., Fryer P., Vonder Haar D.L., Yeh H. Unusual geochemistry of hydrothermal vents in submarine arc volcanoes: Kasuga seamounts, northern Mariana arc. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 114:1993;517-528.
28. Taylor B., Karner G.D. On the evolution of marginal basins. Rev. Geophys. Space Phys. 21:1983;1727-1741.
29. Plank T., Langmuir C.H. An evaluation of the global variations in the major element chemistry of arc basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 90:1988;349-370.
30. Gamble J.A., Smith I.E.M., McMulloch M.T., Graham I.J., Kokelaar B.P. The geochemistry and petrogenesis of basalts from the Taupo volcanic zone and Kermadec island arc, SW Pacific. J. Volcan. Geotherm. Res. 54:1993;265-290.
31. J.A. Gamble, I.C. Wright, J. Woodhead, M.T. McCulloch, Arc and back-arc geochemistry in the southern Kermadec arc-Ngatoro Basin and offshore Taupo volcanic zone, SW Pacific, in: J.L. Smellie (Ed.), Volcanism Associated with Extension at Consuming Plate Margins, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ. 81 (1995) 193-212.
32. Gamble J.A., Woodhead J., Wright I.C., Smith I.E.M. Basalt and sediment geochemistry and magma petrogenesis in a transect from oceanic island arc to rifted continental margin arc: the Kermadec-Hikurangi margin, SW Pacific. J. Petrol. 37:1996;1523-1546.
33. Herzig P.M., Hannington M.D., Fouquet Y., von Stackelberg U., Petersen S. Gold-rich polymetallic sulfides from the Lau back arc and implications for the geochemistry of gold in sea-floor hydrothermal systems of the Southwest Pacific. Econ. Geol. 88:1993;2182-2200.
34. Langmuir C., Humphris S., Fornari D., Van Dover C., Von Damm K., Tivey M.K., Colodner D., Charlou J.-L., Desonie D., Wilson C., Fouquet Y., Klinkhammer G., Bougault H. Hydrothermal vents near a mantle hotspot: the Lucky Strike vent field at 37°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 148:1997;69-91.
35. Rona P.A., Klinkhammer G., Nelson T.A., Trefy J.H., Elderfield H. Black smokers, massive sulphides and vent biota at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature. 321:1986;33-37.
36. Hannington M.D., Thompson G., Rona P.A., Scott S.D. Gold and native copper in supergene sulphides from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature. 333:1988;64-66.