Hotspot-ridge interaction along the Southeast Indian Ridge near Amsterdam and St. Paul islands: Helium isotope evidence

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 167, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 297-310

  Graham, D W ^a   Johnson, K T M ^b   Priebe, L Douglas ^a   Lupton, J E ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Helium; Isotopes; Mantle plumes; Mid ocean ridge basalts; Southeast Indian Ridge

Indexed keywords

HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033561720     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00030-8     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Schilling J.-G. Iceland mantle plume: geochemical evidence along Reykjanes Ridge. Nature. 242:1973;565-571.
2. Schilling J.-G., Kingsley R.H., Devine J.D. Galapagos hot spot-spreading center system 1, spatial, petrological and geochemical variations (83°W-101°W). J. Geophys. Res. 87:1982;5593-5610.
3. Hanan B.B., Kingsley R.H., Schilling J.-G. Pb isotope evidence in the South Atlantic for migrating ridge-hotspot interactions. Nature. 322:1986;137-144.
4. Hanan B.B., Schilling J.-G. Easter microplate evolution: Pb isotope evidence. J. Geophys. Res. 94:1989;7432-7448.
5. Poreda R.J., Schilling J.-G., Craig H. Helium isotope ratios in Easter Microplate basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 119:1993;319-329.
6. Kingsley R., Schilling J.-G. Plume-ridge interaction in the Easter-Salas y Gomez seamount chain-Easter microplate system: Pb isotope evidence. J. Geophys. Res. 103:1998;24159-24177.
7. Feighner M.A., Richards M.A. The fluid dynamics of plume-ridge and plume-plate interactions: an experimental investigation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 129:1995;71-182.
8. Kincaid C., Schilling J.-G., Gable C. The dynamics of off-axis plume-ridge interaction in the uppermost mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 137:1996;29-43.
9. Ribe N.M. The dynamics of plume-ridge interaction 2, Off-ridge plumes. J. Geophys. Res. 101:1996;16195-16204.
10. Sleep N.H. Lateral flow of hot plume material ponded at sublithospheric depths. J. Geophys. Res. 101:1996;28065-28083.
11. Ito G., Lin J., Gable C.W. Interaction of mantle plumes and migrating midocean ridges: implications for the Galápagos plume-ridge system. J. Geophys. Res. 102:1997;15403-15417.
12. Kurz M.D., Jenkins W.J., Schilling J.-G., Hart S.R. Helium isotopic variations in the mantle beneath the central North Atlantic Ocean. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 58:1982;1-14.
13. Poreda R.J., Schilling J.-G., Craig H. Helium and hydrogen isotopes in ocean-ridge basalts north and south of Iceland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 78:1986;1-17.
14. Graham D.W., Jenkins W.J., Schilling J.-G., Thompson G., Kurz M.D., Humphris S.E. Helium isotope geochemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalts from the South Atlantic. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 110:1992;133-147.
15. Moreira M., Staudacher T., Sarda P., Schilling J.-G., Allègre C.J. A primitive plume neon component in MORB: the Shona ridge-anomaly, South Atlantic (51-52°S). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 133:1995;367-377.
16. Lupton J.E., Graham D.W., Delaney J.R., Johnson H.P. Helium isotope variations in Juan de Fuca Ridge basalts. Geophys. Res. Lett. 20:1993;1851-1854.
17. Ito E., White W.M., Göpel C. The O, Sr, Nd and Pb isotope geochemistry of MORB. Chem. Geol. 62:1987;157-176.
18. Hanan B.B., Graham D.W. Lead and helium isotope evidence from oceanic basalts for a common deep source of mantle plumes. Science. 272:1996;991-995.
19. Mahoney J.J., Natland J.H., White W.M., Poreda R., Bloomer S.H., Fisher R.L., Baxter A.N. Isotopic and geochemical provinces of the western Indian Ocean spreading centers. J. Geophys. Res. 94:1989;4033-4052.
20. Hamelin B., Dupré B., Allègre C.-J. Pb-Sr-Nd isotopic data of Indian Ocean ridges: new evidence of large-scale mapping of mantle heterogeneities. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 76:1986;288-298.
21. Dosso L., Bougault H., Beuzart P., Calvez J.-Y., Joron J.-L. The geochemical structure of the South-East Indian Ridge. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 88:1988;47-59.
22. Michard A., Montigny R., Schlich R. Geochemistry of the mantle beneath the Rodriguez triple junction and the South-East Indian Ridge. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 78:1986;104-114.
23. Price R.C., Kennedy A.C., Riggs-Sneeringer M., Frey F.A. Geochemistry of basalts from the Indian Ocean triple junction: implications for the generation and evolution of Indian Ocean basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 78:1986;379-396.
24. Duncan R.A. Hotspots in the southern oceans: an absolute frame of reference motion of the Gondwana continent. Tectonophysics. 74:1981;29-42.
25. Schilling J.-G. Fluxes and excess temperatures of mantle plumes inferred from their interaction with migrating ridges. Nature. 352:1991;397-403.
26. Storey M., Saunders A.D., Tarney J., Gibson I.L., Norry M.J., Thirlwall M.F., Leat P., Thompson R.N., Menzies M.A. Contamination of the Indian Ocean asthenosphere by the Kerguelen-Heard mantle plume. Nature. 338:1989;574-576.
27. Royer J.-Y., Coffin M.F. Jurassic to Eocene plate tectonic reconstructions in the Kerguelen Plateau region. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results. 120:1978;917-928.
28. Royer J.-Y., Sandwell D.T. Evolution of the eastern Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous: constraints from Geosat altimetry. J. Geophys. Res. 94:1989;13755-13782.
29. Duncan R.A., Storey M. The life cycle of Indian Ocean hotspots. AGU, Geophys. Monogr. 70:1992;91-103.
30. Luyendyk B.P., Rennick W. Tectonic history of aseismic ridges in the eastern Indian Ocean. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 88:1977;1347-1356.
31. D.T. Sandwell, W.H. Smith, Marine gravity anomaly from satellite altimetry, 34″ × 53″ poster, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geological Data Center, La Jolla, CA, 1995.
32. Small C. Observations of ridge-hotspot interactions in the Southern Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 100:1995;17931-17946.
33. Royer J.-Y., Schlich R. Southeast Indian Ridge between the Rodriguez Triple Junction and the Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands: detailed kinematics for the past 20 m.y. J. Geophys. Res. 93:1988;13524-13550.
34. Scheirer D., Forsyth D., Johnson K., Graham D. The Southeast Indian Ridge near Amsterdam and St. Paul Islands: results from Boomerang Leg 6. Ridge Events. 7:1996;5-9.
35. Douglas L.M., Graham D.W., Johnson K.T.M., Scheirer D.S., Forsyth D.W. Variations in major element composition of basalt glasses along the Southeast Indian Ridge in the vicinity of the Amsterdam-Saint Paul Platform. EOS. 77:1996;F690.
36. L.M. Douglas Priebe, Geochemical and Petrogenetic Effects of the Interaction of the Southeast Indian Ridge and the Amsterdam-St. Paul Hotspot, M.S., Oregon State University, 1998.
37. Graham D.W., Larsen L.M., Hanan B.B., Storey M., Pedersen A.K., Lupton J.E. Helium isotope composition of the early Iceland mantle plume inferred from the Tertiary picrites of West Greenland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 160:1998;241-255.
38. Anderson D.L. The helium paradoxes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95:1998;4822-4827.
39. Graham D.W., Kurz M.D., Jenkins W.J., Thompson G., Batiza R. Constraints on basaltic magma evolution inferred from He isotope geochemistry of Pacific seamounts and overlapping spreading centers. EOS. 66:1985;1120.
40. Hilton D.L., Hammerschmidt K., Loock G., Friedrichsen H. Helium and argon isotope systematics of the central Lau Basin and Valu Fa Ridge: evidence of crust/mantle interactions in a back-arc basin. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 57:1993;2819-2841.
41. Mahoney J.J., Sinton J.M., Kurz M.D., Macdougall J.D., Spencer K.J., Lugmair G.W. Isotope and trace element characteristics of a super-fast spreading ridge: East Pacific Rise, 13- 23°S. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 121:1993;173-193.
42. Rubin K., Mahoney J. What's on the plume channel? Nature. 362:1993;109-110.
43. Ellam R.M. Lithospheric thickness as a control on basalt geochemistry. Geology. 20:1992;153-156.
44. Klein E.M., Langmuir C.H. Global correlations of ocean ridge basalt chemistry with axial depth and crustal thickness. J. Geophys. Res. 92:1987;8089-8115.
45. Marty B., Lussiez P. Constraints on rare gas partition coefficients from analysis of olivine-glass from a picritic mid-ocean ridge basalt. Chem. Geol. 106:1993;1-7.
46. Morgan W.J. Rodriguez, Darwin, Amsterdam,., a second type of hotspot island. J. Geophys. Res. 83:1978;5355-5360.
47. White W.M. Sources of oceanic basalts: radiogenic isotopic evidence. Geology. 13:1985;115-118.
48. Dosso L., Vidal P., Cantagrel J.M., Lameyre J., Marot A., Zimine S. 'Kerguelen: continental fragment or oceanic island?' petrology and isotopic geochemistry evidence. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 43:1979;46-60.
49. Dosso L., Murthy V.R. A Nd isotopic study of the Kerguelen islands: inferences on enriched mantle sources. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 48:1980;268-276.
50. Storey M., Saunders A.D., Tarney J., Leat P., Thirlwall M.F., Thompson R.N., Menzies M.A., Marriner G.F. Geochemical evidence for plume-mantle interactions beneath Kerguelen and Heard Islands, Indian Ocean. Nature. 336:1988;371-374.
51. Weis D., Bassias Y., Gautier I., Mennessier J.-P. Dupal anomaly in existence 115 Ma ago: evidence from isotopic study of the Kerguelen Plateau (South Indian Ocean). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 53:1989;2125-2131.
52. Weis D., White W.M., Frey F.A., Duncan R.A., Fisk M.R., Dehn J., Ludden J., Saunders A., Storey M. The influence of mantle plumes in generation of Indian oceanic crust. AGU, Geophys. Monogr. 70:1992;57-89.
53. Weis D., Frey F.A., Leyrit H., Gautier I. Kerguelen Archipelago revisited: geochemical and isotopic study of the southeast province lavas. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 118:1993;101-119.
54. Barling J., Goldstein S.L. Extreme isotope variations in Heard Island lavas and the nature of mantle reservoirs. Nature. 348:1990;59-62.
55. Barling J., Goldstein S.L., Nicholls I.A. Geochemistry of Heard Island (Southern Indian Ocean): characterization of an enriched mantle component and implications for enrichment of the sub-Indian ocean mantle. J. Petrol. 35:1994;1017-1053.
56. Mahoney J.J., Jones W., Frey F.A., Salters V., Pyle D.G., Davies H. Geochemical characteristics of lavas from Broken Ridge, the Naturaliste Plateau and southernmost Kerguelen Plateau: Cretaceous volcanism in the southeast Indian Ocean. Chem. Geol. 120:1995;315-345.
57. Valbracht P.J., Honda M., Matsumoto T., Mattielli N., McDougall I., Ragettli R., Weis D. Helium, neon and argon isotope systematics in Kerguelen ultramafic xenoliths: implications for mantle source signatures. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 138:1996;29-38.
58. Vance D., Stone J.O.H., O'Nions R.K. He, Sr, and Nd isotopes in xenoliths from Hawaii and other oceanic islands. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 96:1989;147-160.
59. Hilton D.R., Barling J., Wheller G.E. Effect of shallow-level contamination on the helium isotope systematics of ocean-island lavas. Nature. 373:1995;330-333.
60. Woodhead J.D., McCulloch M.T. Ancient seafloor signals in Pitcairn Island lavas and evidence for large amplitude, small length-scale mantle heterogeneities. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 94:1989;257-273.
61. D. Graham, J. Lupton, E. Klein, D. Christie, D. Pyle, Helium isotope geochemistry of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance, 7th Int. Conf. Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geology, Geol. Soc. Aust. 27 (1990) 41.
62. Gurnis M. Stirring and mixing in the mantle by plate-scale flow: large persistent blobs and long tendrils coexist. Geophys. Res. Lett. 13:1986;1474-1477.
63. Allègre C.J., Turcotte D.L. Implications of a two-component marble-cake mantle. Nature. 323:1986;123-127.
64. Dupré B., Allègre C.J. Pb-Sr isotope variation in Indian Ocean basalts and mixing phenomena. Nature. 303:1983;142-146.
65. Hart S.R. A large-scale isotope anomaly in the Southern Hemisphere mantle. Nature. 309:1984;753-757.
66. 204Pb mid-ocean ridge basalt: isotope systematics of the Central Southwest Indian Ridge (17°-50°E). J. Geophys. Res. 97:1992;19771-19790.
67. Mahoney J.J., White W.M., Upton B.G.J., Neal C.R., Scrutton R.A. Beyond EM-1: lavas from Afanasy-Nikitin Rise and the Crozet Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Geology. 24:1996;615-618.
68. Rehkämper M., Hofmann A.W. Recycled ocean crust and sediment in Indian Ocean MORB. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 147:1997;91-106.
69. Demets C., Gordon R.G., Argus D.F., Stein S. Current plate motions. Geophys. J. Int. 101:1990;425-478.
70. Langmuir C.H., Vocke R.D.J., Hanson G.N., Hart S.R. A general mixing equation with applications to Icelandic basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 37:1978;380-392.