40Ar/39Ar chronology of the Leucite Hills, Wyoming: Eruption rates, erosion rates, and an evolving temperature structure of the underlying mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 329-340

  Lange, Rebecca A ^a   Carmichael, Ian S E ^b   Hall, Chris M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion rates; Eruptions; Geochronology; Lamproite; Rates; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EROSION; LAMPROITE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034651119     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00267-8     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Kemp J.F. The Leucite Hills of Wyoming. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 8:1897;169-182.
2. Cross W. Igneous rocks of the Leucite Hills and Pilot Butte, Wyoming. Am. J. Sci. 4:1897;115-141.
3. Carmichael I.S.E. The mineralogy and petrology of the volcanic rocks from the Leucite Hills, Wyoming. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 15:1967;24-66.
4. R.H. Mitchell, S.C. Bergman, Petrology of Lamproites, Plenum, New York, 1991, 477 pp.
5. Mitchell R.H. Melting experiments on a sanidine phlogopite lamproite at 4-7 GPa and their bearing on the sources of lamproitic magmas. J. Petrol. 36:1995;1455-1474.
6. Sato K. Melting experiments on a synthetic olivine lamproite composition up to 8 GPa: implications to its petrogenesis. J. Geophys. Res. 102:1997;14751-14764.
7. Vollmer R., Ogden P., Schilling J.-G., Kingsley R.H., Waggoner D.G. Nd and Sr isotopes in ultrapotassic volcanic rocks from the Leucite Hills, Wyoming. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 87:1984;359-368.
8. Fraser K.J., Hawkesworth C.J., Erlank A.J., Mitchell R.H., Scott Smith B.H. Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope and minor element geochemistry of lamproites and kimberlites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 76:1985;57-70.
9. Humphreys E.D., Dueker K.G. Physical state of the western U.S. upper mantle. J. Geophys. Res. 99:1994;9635-9650.
10. Zandt G., Myers S.C., Wallace T.C. Crust and mantle structure across the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau boundary at 37°N latitude and implications for Cenozoic extensional mechanism. J. Geophys. Res. 100:1995;10529-10548.
11. Spencer J.E. Uplift of the Colorado Plateau due to lithospheric attenuation during Laramide low-angle subduction. J. Geophys. Res. 101:1996;13595-13609.
12. Henstock T.J., Levander A., Snelson C.M., Keller G.R., Miller K.C., Harder S.H., Gorman A.R., Clowes R.M., Burianyk M.J.A., Humphreys E.D. Probing the Archean and Proterozoic lithosphere of western North America. GSA Today. 8:1998;1-5.
13. W.H. Bradley, Geology of the Green River Formation and associated Eocene rocks in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts of Colorado and Utah, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 496-A, 1964, pp. 57-58.
14. McDowell F.W. K-Ar ages of igneous rocks from the western United States. Isochron/West. 2:1971;1-16.
15. Kemp J.F., Knight W.C. Leucite Hills of Wyoming. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 4:1903;305-336.
16. R.S. Houston, E.A. Erslev, C.D. Frost, K.E. Karlstrom, N.J. Page, J.L. Zientek, J.C. Reed, G.L. Snyder, R.G. Worl, B. Bryant, M.W. Reynolds, Z.E. Peterman, The Wyoming Province, in: J.C. Reed (Ed.), Precambrian: Conterminous U.S., Geology of North America, v. C-2, Geological Society of America, 1993, pp. 121-170.
17. Karlstrom K.E., Houston R.S. The Cheyenne belt: Analysis of a Proterozoic suture in southern Wyoming. Precamb. Res. 25:1984;415-446.
18. D.L. Blackstone, Tectonic analysis of southwestern Wyoming from ERTS-1 imagery, Univ. Wyoming Remote Sensing Lab, Cont. NAS 5-21799, 1972, pp. 1-4.
19. P.R. Ogden, The Geology, Major Element Geochemistry, and Petrogenesis of the Leucite Hills Volcanic Rocks, Wyoming, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wyoming, 1979, 137 pp.
20. Schultz A.R., Cross W. Potash-bearing rocks of the Leucite Hills, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 512:1912;1-39.
21. Renne P.R., Swisher C.C., Deino A.L., Karner D.B., Owens T., DePaulo D.J. Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotope time. Geology. 22:1994;783-786.
22. 39Ar ages of tephra from Indian Ocean deep-sea sediments: Tie points for the astronomical and geomagnetic polarity time scales. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 133:1995;327-338.
23. Sheriff S.D., Shive P.N. Paleomagnetism of the Leucite Hills volcanic field, southwestern Wyoming. Geophys. Res. Lett. 7:1980;1025-1028.
24. Shackleton N.J., Berger A., Peltier W.R. An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 81:1990;251-261.
25. Hilgen F.J. Astronomical calibration of Gauss to Matuyama sapropels in the Mediterranean and implication for the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 104:1991;226-244.
26. Hilgen F.J. Extension of the astronomically calibrated (polarity) time scale to the Miocene/Pliocene boundary. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 107:1991;349-368.
27. 39Ar timescale of reversals and events. J. Geophys. Res. 104:1999;679-693.
28. Dumitru T.A. Subnormal Cenozoic geothermal gradients in the extinct Sierra Nevada magmatic arc: consequences of Laramide and post-Laramide shallow-angle subduction. J. Geophys. Res. 95:1990;4925-4941.
29. Sinton J.M., Detrick R.S. Mid-ocean ridge magma chambers. J. Geophys. Res. 97:1992;197-216.
30. Hildreth W., Lanphere M.A. Potassium-argon geochronology of a basalt-andesite-dacite arc system: The Mt. Adams volcanic field, Cascade Range of southern Washington. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 106:1994;1413-1429.
31. Foley S.F. An experimental study of olivine lamproite: first results from the diamond stability field. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 57:1993;483-489.
32. 2-rich lamproite from Smokey Butte, Montana: Derivation of siliceous lamproite magmas from enriched sources deep in the continental mantle. J. Petrol. 38:1997;457-477.
33. Barton M., van Bergen M.J. Green clinopyroxenes and associated phases in a potassium-rich lava from the Leucite Hills, Wyoming. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 77:1981;101-114.
34. Barton M., Hamilton D.L. Water-saturated melting relations to 5 kilobars of three Leucite Hills lavas. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 66:1978;41-49.
35. R.G. Luedke, R.L. Smith, Map showing distribution, composition, and age of late Cenozoic volcanic centers in the western conterminous United States, U.S. Geol. Surv. Misc. Inv. Series Map I-1523, 1983.
36. Leat P.T., Thompson R.N., Dicken A.P., Morrison M.A., Hendry G.L. Quaternary volcanism in northwestern Colorado: implications for the roles of asthenosphere and lithosphere in the genesis of continental basalts. J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 37:1989;291-310.
37. Ebinger C.B., Sleep N.H. Cenozoic magmatism throughout east Africa resulting from impact of a single plume. Nature. 395:1998;788-791.
38. Walck M. The P-wave upper mantle structure beneath an active spreading center: The Gulf of California. R. Astrol. Soc. Geophys. J. 76:1983;697-723.
39. LeFevre L.V., Helmberger D.V. Upper mantle P velocity structure of the Canadian shield. J. Geophys. Res. 94:1989;17749-17765.