40Ar/39Ar geochronology of flood basalts from the Kerguelen Archipelago, southern Indian Ocean: Implications for Cenozoic eruption rates of the Kerguelen plume

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 313-328

  Nicolaysen, K ^a   Frey, F A ^a   Hodges, K V ^a   Weis, D ^b   Giret, A ^c  

^a Atmosph Planet Sci M ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Ar 40 Ar 39; Eruptions; Hot spots; Kerguelen Islands; Mid ocean ridges

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; TERTIARY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0034651120     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00271-X     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Gerlach D. Eruption rates and isotopic systematics of ocean islands: further evidence for small-scale heterogeneity in the upper mantle. Tectonophysics. 172:1990;273-289.
2. Coffin M.F., Eldholm O. Large igneous provinces: crustal structure, dimensions, and external consequences. Rev. Geophys. 32:1994;1-36.
3. P.W. Lipman, Declining growth of Mauna Loa during the last 100 000 years: rates of lava accumulation vs. gravitational subsidence, in: Mauna Loa Revealed: Structure, Composition, History, and Hazards Geophysical Monograph 92, AGU, 1995, pp. 45-80.
4. Ellam E. Lithospheric thickness as a control on basalt geochemistry. Geology. 20:1992;153-156.
5. McKenzie D., Sclater J. The evolution of the Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous. Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc. 24:1971;437-528.
6. Mahoney J., Macdougall J., Lugmair G., Gopalan K. Kerguelen hot spot source for Rajmahal traps and Ninetyeast Ridge? Nature. 303:1983;385-389.
7. 39Ar ages of central Kerguelen Plateau Basalts. Proc. ODP Sci. Results. 120:1992;71-77.
8. Leclaire L., Bassias Y., Denis-Clocchiatti M., Davies H., Gautier I., Gensous B., Giannesini P.-J., Patriat P., Segoufin J., Tesson M., Wannesson J. Lower Cretaceous Basalt and Sediments from the Kerguelen Plateau. Geo-Mar. Lett. 7:1987;169-176.
9. R. Duncan, Age distribution of volcanism along aseismic ridges in the eastern Indian Ocean, in: J. Weissel, J. Peirce, et al., Proc. ODP Sci. Results 121 (1991) 507-517.
10. Mutter J., Cande S. The early opening between Broken Ridge and Kerguelen Plateau. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 65:1983;369-376.
11. Duncan R., Richards M. Hotspots, mantle plumes, flood basalts, and true polar wander. Rev. Geophys. 29:1991;31-50.
12. Baksi A. Reevaluation of plate motion models based on hotspot tracks in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. J. Geol. 107:1999;13-26.
13. Saunders A., Storey M., Kent R., Gibson I. Magmatic activity associated with the Kerguelen - Heard plume: implications for plume dynamics. Mem. Soc. Géol. Fr. 166:1994;61-72.
14. Nougier J. Contribution a l'étude géologiqe et géomorphologique des Iles Kerguelen (T.A.A.F.). Centre Natl. Fr. Réch. Antarct. 246:1970;440.
15. Weis D., Giret A. Kerguelen plutonic complexes: Sr, Nd, Pb isotopic study and inferences about their sources, age and geodynamic setting. Mem. Soc. Géol. Fr. 166:1994;47-59.
16. A. Giret and J. Lameyre, A study of Kerguelen plutonism: petrology, geochronology and geological implications, in: Oliver et al. (Eds.), Antarct. Earth Sci., Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983, pp. 646-651.
17. Giret A., Beaux J.-F. The plutonic massif of Val Gabbro (Kerguelen Islands): a tholeiitic complex related to the activity of the East-Indian paleoridge. Comptes Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris. 299:1984;965-969.
18. Charvis P., Recq M., Operto S., Brefort D. Deep structure of the northern Kerguelen Plateau and hotspot-related activity. Geophys. J. Int. 122:1995;899-924.
19. Hall K. Evidence in favor of an extensive ice cover on sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Island during the last glacial. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 47:1984;225-232.
20. Nativel P., Nougier J. Les facies zeolitiques des basaltes des plateaux des iles Kerguelen (T.A.A.F.); implications volcanologiques. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. 6:1983;957-961.
21. A. Giret, O. Verdier and P. Nativel, The zeolitisation model of Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean, in: Y. Yoshida, et al. (Eds.), Recent Progress in Antarctic Earth Science, Terra Scientific Pub., Tokyo, 1992, pp. 457-463.
22. Yang H.-J., Frey F.A., Weis D., Giret A., Pyle D., Michon G. Petrogenesis of the flood basalts forming the northern Kerguelen Archipelago: Implications for the Kerguelen Plume. Contrib. Miner. Petrol. 39:1998;711-748.
23. Watkins N.D., Gunn B.M., Nougier J., Baksi A.K. Kerguelen: continental fragment or Oceanic Island? GSA Bull. 85:1974;201-212.
24. Terres Australes et Antarctiques (T.A.A.F.), Kerguelen Islands Reconaissance map, 1:200 000, Instit. Geograph. Nat'l. Paris (1973).
25. F. Frey, D. Weis, H.-J. Yang, K. Nicolaysen, H. Leyrit and A. Giret, Temporal geochemical trends in the Kerguelen Archipelago: Evidence for a decreasing magma supply from the Kerguelen Plume, Chem. Geol. (in press).
26. Weis D., Frey F., Giret A., Cantagrel J.-M. Geochemical characteristics of the youngest volcano (Mount Ross) in the Kerguelen Archipelago: Inferences for magma flux and composition of the Kerguelen Plume. J. Petrol. 39:1998;973-994.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. Gautier I., Weis D., Mennessier J.-P., Vidal P., Giret A., Loubet M. Petrology and geochemistry of the Kerguelen Archipelago basalts (South Indian Ocean): evolution of mantle sources from ridge to intraplate position. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 100:1990;59-76.
30. J.M. Cantagrel, A. Giret and J. Nougier, Datations K-Ar des laves et des plutons des Iles Kerguelen, Spec. Sess. Soc. Géol. Fr. 8 (1990).
31. 39Ar dating. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta Proc. Suppl. 5:1974;1601-1615.
32. 39Ar technique to plagioclase and glass from the Kirkpatrick Basalt, Antarctica. Chem. Geol. 107:1993;173-190.
33. Damasceno D., Nicolaysen K., Weis D., Scoates J., Frey F., Yang H.-J., Giret A. The Kerguelen Plume: constraints from the 24.5 Ma alkalic basalts at Mont Crozier (Kerguelen Archipelago). EOS Trans. AGU. 78:1997;F728-F729.
34. 39Ar and K-Ar dating of altered glassy volcanic rocks; the Dabi volcanics, P.N.G. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 46:1982;2181-2190.
35. 18O and Ar mobility. Chem. Geol. 52:1985;281-293.
36. Hofmann A., White W. Ba, Rb and Cs in the earth's mantle. Z. Nat.forsch. 38a:1983;256-266.
37. 40Ar. Geology. 22:1994;135-138.
38. 39Ar and fission-track methods. Terr. Cogn. 6:1986;139-140.
39. Renne P.R., Deino A.L., Walter R.C., Turrin B.D., Swisher C.C., Becker T.A., Curtis G.H., Sharp W.D., Jaouni A.-R. Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time. Geology. 22:1994;783-786.
40. Vannay J.-C., Hodges K.V. Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Himalayan metamorphic core between the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri, central Nepal. J. Metam. Geol. 14:1996;635-656.
41. 39Ar age spectra of Mesozoic tholeiites from Antarctica. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 41:1977;15-32.
42. York D. Least-squares fitting of a straight line with correlated errors. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 5:1969;320-324.
43. Roddick J.C., Cliff R.A., Rex D.C. The evolution of excess argon in Alpine biotites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 48:1980;185-208.
44. Weis D., Damasceno D., Frey F., Nicolaysen K., Giret A. Temporal isotopic variations in the Kerguelen plume: evidence from the Kerguelen Archipelago. Miner. Mag. 62A:1998;1643-1644.
45. Houtz R., Hayes D., Markl R. Kerguelen Plateau bathymetry, sediment distribution, and crustal structure. Mar. Geol. 25:1977;95-130.
46. Mattielli N., Weis D., Grégoire M., Mennessier J.-P., Cottin J.-Y., Giret A. Kerguelen basic and ultrabasic xenoliths evidence for long-lived Kerguelen hotspot activity. Lithos. 37:1996;261-280.
47. Richards M., Duncan R., Courtillot V. Flood basalts and hot-spot tracks plume heads and tails. Science. 246:1989;103-107.
48. Campbell I.H., Griffiths R.W. Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 99:1990;79-93.
49. Sleep N.H. Time dependence of mantle plumes: some simple theory. J. Geophys. Res. 97:1992;20007-20019.
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. White R., McKenzie D., O'Nions R. Oceanic crustal thickness from seismic measurements and rare earth element inversions. J. Geophys. Res. 94:1989;7685-7729.
52. F.A. Frey, M.F. Coffin, P.J. Wallace, et al. (Eds.), Kerguelen Plateau-Broken Ridge: a large igneous province, Proc. ODP Init. Rep. 183, College Station, TX, 1999.
53. Fröhlich F., Wicquart E. Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments from the Northern Kerguelen Plateau. Geo-Mar. Lett. 9:1989;127-133.
54. Munschy M., Dyment J., Boulanger M., Tissot J., Schlich R., Rotstein Y., Coffin M. Breakup and seafloor spreading between the Kerguelen-Labuan Basin and the Broken Ridge-Diamantina Zone. Proc. ODP Sci. Results. 120:1992;931-944.
55. 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.