Ophiolites as faithful records of the oxygen isotope ratio of ancient seawater: The Solund-Stavjord Ophiolite Complex as a Late Ordovician example

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 218, Issue , 2004, Pages 401-414

  Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a   Furnes, Harald ^b   Fonneland, Hege C ^b   Hellevang, Bjarte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHISM; OPHIOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEAWATER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 2942514302     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.218.01.20     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. AGRINIER, P., JAVOY, M. & GIRARDEAU, J. 1988. Hydrothermal activity in a peculiar oceanic ridge: oxygen and hydrogen isotope evidence in the Xigaze Ophiolite (Tibet, China). Chemical Geology, 71, 313-335.
2. ALT, J.C., MUEHLENBACHS, K. & HONNOREZ, J. 1986. An oxygen isotopic profile through the upper kilometer of the oceanic crust, DSDP Hole 504B. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 80, 217-229.
3. ALT, J.C., LAVERNE, C. & VANKO, D.A. ET AL. 1996. Hydrothermal alteration of a section of upper oceanic crust in the eastern equatorial Pacific: a synthesis of results from site 504 (DSDP Legs 69, 70, and 83, and ODP Legs 111, 137, 140 and 148). In: ALT, J.C., KINOSHITA, H., STOKKING, L.B. & MICHAEL, J.P. (eds) Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 148. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, 417-434.
4. ANDERSEN, T.B., SKJERLIE, K.P. & FURNES, H. 1990. The Sunnfjord Mélange: evidence for Silurian ophiolite accretion in the West Norwegian, Caledonides. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 147, 59-68.
5. BANERJEE, N.R., GILLIS, K.M. & MUEHLENBACHS, K. 2000. Discovery of epidosites in a modern oceanic setting, the Tonga forearc. Geology, 28(2), 151-154.
6. BARAGAR, W.R.A. 1984. Pillow formation and layered flows in the Circum-Superior Belt of eastern Hudson Bay. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 21, 781-792.
7. BARNICOAT, A.C. & CARTWRIGHT, I. 1997. The gabbro-eclogite transformation: an oxygen isotope and petrographic study of west Alpine ophiolites. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 15, 93-104.
8. BARTH, M.G., RUDNICK, R.L., HORN, I., MCDONOUGH, W.F., SPICUZZA, M.J., VALLEY, J.W. & HAGGERTY, S.E. 2001. Geochemistry of xenolithic eclogites from West Africa, Part I: a link between low MgO eclogites and Archean crust formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65, 1499-1527.
9. BEARD, B.L., FRARACCI, K.N., TAYLOR, L.A., SNYDER, G.A., CLAYTON, R.A., MAYEDA, T.K. & SOBOLEV, N.V. 1996. Petrography and geochemistry of eclogites from the Mir kimberlite, Yakutia, Russia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 125, 293-310.
10. CARTWRIGHT, I. & BARNICOAT, A.C. 1999. Stable isotope geochemistry of Alpine ophiolites: a window to ocean-floor hydrothermal alteration and constraints on fluid-rock interaction during high-pressure metamorphism. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 88, 219-235.
11. 18O Scourie dike magmas from the Lewisian complex, northwestern Scotland. Geology, 19, 578-581.
12. CLAYTON, R.N. & MAYEDA, T.K. 1963. The use of bromine penta-fluoride in the extraction of oxygen from oxide and silicates for isotope analysis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 27, 43-52.
13. CLAYTON, R.N., O'NEIL, J.R. & MAYEDA, T.K. 1972. Oxygen isotope exchange between quartz and water. Journal of Geophysical Research, 77(17), 3057-3066.
14. COCKER, J.D., GRIFFIN, B.J. & MUEHLENBACHS, K. 1982. Oxygen and carbon isotope evidence for seawater-hydrothermal alteration of the Macquarie Island ophiolite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 61, 112-122.
15. COLEMAN, M., SHEPPARD, T.M., DURHAM, J.J., ROUSE, J.E. & MOORE, G.R. 1982. Reduction of water with zinc for hydrogen isotope analysis. Analytical Chemistry, 54(6), 993-995.
16. CRAIG, H. 1961. Standard for reporting concentrations of deuterium and oxygen-18 in natural waters. Science, 133, 1833-1834.
17. DE WIT, M.J. & HART, R.A. 1993. Earth's earliest continental lithosphere, hydrothermal flux and crustal recycling. Lithos, 30, 309-335.
18. DILEK, Y., FURNES, H. & SKJERLIE, K.P. 1997. Propagating rift tectonics of a Caledonian marginal basin: multi-stage seafloor spreading history of the Solund-Stavfjord ophiolite in Western Norway. Tectonophysics, 280, 213-238.
19. DUNNING, G.R. & PEDERSEN, R.B. 1988. U/Pb ages of ophiolites and arc-related plutons of the Norwegian Caledonides: implications for the development of Iapetus. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 98, 13-23.
20. ELDERFIELD, H., WHEAT, C.G., MOTTL, M.J., MONNIN, C. & SPIRO, B. 1999. Fluid and geochemical transport through oceanic crust; a transect across the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 172, 151-165.
21. FURNES, H. 1972. Meta-hyaloclastite breccias associated with Ordovician pillow lavas in the Solund area, west Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 52, 385-407.
22. FURNES, H. 1974. Structural and metamorphic history of the Lower Palaeozoic metavolcanics and associated sediments in the Solund area, Sogn. Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse, 302, 33-74.
23. FURNES, H., SKJERLIE, K.P. & PEDERSEN, R.B. ET AL. 1990. The Solund-Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex and associated rocks, west Norwegian Caledonides: geology, geochemistry and tectonic environment. Geological Magazine, 127, 209-289.
24. FURNES, H., DILEK, Y., SKJERLIE, K.P., RYTTVAD, H.L. & FONNELAND, H.C. 1998. Variations in basaltic geochemistry along a propagating rift of the Late Ordovician basin of the West Norwegian Caledonides. Terra Nova, 10, 21-26.
25. FURNES, H., SKJERLIE, K.P. & DILEK, Y. 2000. Petrology, tectonics, and hydrothermal alteration of a fossil backarc oceanic crust: Solund-Stavfjord ophiolite complex of the western Norwegian Caledonides. In: DILEK, Y., MOORES, E.M., ELTHON. D. & NICOLAS, A. (eds) Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and the Ocean Drilling Program. Geological Society of America, Special Papers, 349, 443-460.
26. FURNES, H., HELLEVANG, B. & DILEK, Y. 2001. Cyclic volcanic stratigraphy in a Late Ordovician marginal basin, west Norwegian Caledonides. Bulletin of Volcanology, 63, 164-178.
27. GARLICK, G.D., MACGREGOR, I.D. & VOGEL, D.E. 1971. Oxygen isotope ratios in eclogites from kimberlites. Science, 172, 1025-1027.
28. GIGUERE, E., BERCLAZ, A., HEBERT, R. & BEAUDOIN, G. 1998. Circulation hydrothermale et metamorphisme dans la sequence crastale du massif de North Arm Moutain, Bay of Islands, Terre-Neuve. AGC/GAC-AMC/MAC-APGGQ. Abstract Volume, 23, A-64-A-65.
29. GILLIS, K.M., MUEHLENBACHS, K., STEWART, M., GLEESON, T. & KARSON, J. 2001. Fluid flow patterns in fast spreading East Pacific Rise crust exposed at Hess Deep. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(B11), 26311-26329.
30. GODFREY, J.D. 1962. The deuterium content of hydrous minerals from the East-Central Sierra Nevada and Yosemite National Park. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 26, 1215-1245.
31. 18O buffering of the oceans by deep (>5 km) seawater hydrothermal circulation at mid-ocean ridges. Journal of Geophysical Research, 84(B4), 2737-2755.
32. HARPER, G.D., BOWMAN, J.R. & KUHNS, R. 1988. A field, chemical, and stable isotope study of subseafloor metamorphism of the Josephine ophiolite, California-Oregon. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93(B5), 4625-4656.
33. HEATON, T.H.E. & SHEPPARD, S.M.F. 1977. Hydrogen and oxygen isotope evidence for seawater-hydrothermal alteration and ore deposition, Troodos complex, Cyprus. In: JONES, M.I. (ed.) Volcanic Processes in Ore Deposits. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 7, 42-57.
34. HOFFMAN, S.E., WILSON, M. & STAKES, D.S. 1986. Inferred oxygen isotope profile of Archaean oceanic crust, Onverwacht Group, South Africa. Nature, 321, 55-58.
35. 16O ratio of 2-billion-year-old seawater inferred from ancient oceanic crust. Science, 259, 1733-1736.
36. HOLMDEN, C. & MUEHLENBACHS, K. 1993b. The origin of oxygen isotope variations in Paleozoic carbonates. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting. Program with Abstracts, A-45.
37. JACOB, D., JAGOUTZ, E., LOWRY, D., MATTEY, D. & KUDRJAVTSEVA, G. 1994. Diamondiferous eclogites from Siberia: remnants of Archean oceanic crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 58(23), 5191-5207.
38. JACOBSEN, S.B. & KAUFMAN, A.J. 1999. The Sr, C, and O isotopic evolution of Neoproterozoic seawater. Chemical Geology, 161, 37-57.
39. JEAN-BAPTISTE, P., CHARLOU, J.L. & STIEVENARD, M. 1997. Oxygen isotope study of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal fluids: implications for the oxygen-18 budget of the oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61, 2669-2677.
40. LAWRENCE, J.R. & GIESKES, J.M. 1981. Constraints on water transport and alteration in the oceanic crust from the isotopic composition of pore water. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86(B9), 7924-7934.
41. LECUYER, C. & FOURCADE, S. 1991. Oxygen isotope evidence for multi-stage hydrothermal alteration at a fossil slow-spreading center: the Silurian Trinity ophiolite (California, USA). Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section), 87, 231-246.
42. LECUYER, C., GRANDJEAN, P. & MARTINEAU, F. 1995. Seawater-sediment-basalt interactions: stable isotope (H,O) and elemental fluxes within the Ordovidian volcano-sedimentary sequence of Erquy (Brittany, France). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 120, 249-264.
43. MACGREGOR, I.D. & MANTON, W.I. 1986. Roberts Victor eclogites: ancient oceanic crust. Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, 14063-14079.
44. MATTHEWS, A. & SCHLIESTEDT, M. 1984. Evolution of the blueschist and greenschist facies rocks of Sifnos, Cyclades, Greece. A stable isotope study of subduction related metamorphism. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 88, 150-163.
45. MILLER, J.A. & CARTWRIGHT, I. 2000a. Distinguishing between seafloor alteration and fluid flow during subduction using stable isotope geochemistry: examples from Tethyan ophiolites in the Western Alps. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 467-482.
46. MILLER, J.A. & CARTWRIGHT, I. 2000b. Large-scale fluid flow patterns within the Corsican Ophiolite. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 69-70, 297-301.
47. MILLER, J.A., CARTWRIGHT, I., BUICK, I.S. & BARNICOAT, A.C. 2001. An O-isotope profile through the HP-LT Corsican ophiolite, France and its implications for fluid flow during subduction. Chemical Geology, 178, 43-69.
48. MOORE, J.G. & SCHILLING, J.-G. 1973. Vesicles, water and sulfur in Reykjanes Ridge basalts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 41, 105-118.
49. 18O history of seawater. In: VALLEY, J.W., TAYLOR, H.P.J. & O'NEIL, J.R. (eds) Stable Isotopes in High Temperature Geological Processes. Mineralogical Society of America, Reviews in Mineralogy, 16, 425-444.
50. MUELENBACHS, K. 1998. The oxygen isotopic composition of the oceans, sediments and the seafloor. Chemical Geology, 145, 263-273.
51. MUEHLENBACHS, K. & CLAYTON, R.N. 1972a. Oxygen isotope studies of fresh and weathered submarine basalts. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 9, 172-184.
52. MUEHLENBACHS, K. & CLAYTON, R.N. 1972b. Oxygen isotope geochemistry of submarine greenstones. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 9, 471-478.
53. MUEHLENBACHS, K. & CLAYTON, R.N. 1976. Oxygen isotope composition of the oceanic crust and its bearing on seawater. Journal of Geophysical Research, 81(23), 4365-4369.
54. NEAL, C.R., TAYLOR, L.A. & DAVIDSON, J.P. ET AL. 1990. Eclogites with oceanic crustal and mantle signatures from the Bellsbank kimberlite, South Africa, part 2: Sr, Nd, and O isotope geochemistry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 99, 362-379.
55. ONGLEY, J.S., BASU, A.R. & KYSER, T.K. 1987. Oxygen isotopes in coexisting garnets, clinopyroxenes and phlogopites of Robert Victor eclogites: implications for petrogenesis and mantle metasomatism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 83, 80-84.
56. PEDERSEN, R.B. 1986. The nature and significance of magma chamber margins in ophiolites: examples from the Norwegian Caledonides. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 77, 100-112.
57. PERRY, E.C. JR 1967. The oxygen isotope chemistry of ancient cherts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 3, 62-66.
58. PUTLITZ, B., MATTHEWS, A. & VALLEY, J.W. 2000. Oxygen and hydrogen isotope study of high pressure metagabbros and metabasalts (Cyclades, Greece): implications for the subduction of oceanic crust. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 138, 114-126.
59. RYTTVAD, H.L., FURNES, H., SKJERLIE, K.P. & ROLFSEN, R. 2000. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of extrusive rocks, dykes and high-level plutonic rocks on the island of Oldra, Solund-Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex, western Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 80, 97-110.
60. SCHIFFMAN, P. & SMITH, B.M. 1988. Petrology and oxygen isotope geochemistry of a fossil seawater hydrothermal system within the Solea Graben, Northern Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93(B5), 4612-4624.
61. SKJERLIE, K.P. & FURNES, H. 1990. Evidence for a fossil transform fault in the Solund/Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex: West Norwegian Caledonides. Tectonics, 9, 1631-1648.
62. SKJERLIE, K.P. & FURNES, H. 1996. The gabbro-dyke zone demonstrated on Tviberg, Solund-Stavfjord Ophiolite Complex. Geological Magazine, 133, 573-582.
63. SNYDER, G.A., TAYLOR, L.A. & JERDE, E.A. ET AL. 1995. Archean mantle heterogeneity and the origin of diamondiferous eclogites, Siberia: evidence from stable isotopes and hydroxyl in garnet. American Mineralogist, 80, 799-809.
64. STAKES, D.S. & TAYLOR, H.P. JR 1992. The northern Samail ophiolite: an oxygen isotope, microprobe, and field study. Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 7043-7080.
65. 18O evolution of Phanerozoic seawater. Chemical Geology, 161, 59-88.
66. 2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon. Nature, 408, 698-701.
67. 18O values. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65(15), 2469-2485.