Geochemistry of sulfide chimneys and basement pillow lavas at the southern mariana trough (12.55°N-12.58°N)

Resource Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-266

  Kakegawa, Takeshi ^a   Utsumi, Motoo ^b   Marumo, Katsumi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SMOKER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; MINERALIZATION; PILLOW LAVA; SUBMERSIBLE; SULFIDE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; THOLEIITIC BASALT; VENTING; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

BRAZIL; MARIANA; MARIANA TROUGH; MINAS GERAIS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 49449106977     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2008.00060.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (34)

1. Alt, J. C., Shanks, W. C. and Jackson, M. C. (1993) Cycling of sulfur in subduction zones: The geochemistry of sulfur in the Mariana island arc and back-arc trough. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 119, 477-494.
2. Elsaied, H. E., Kimura, H. and Naganuma, T. (2007) Composition of archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryal RuBisCO genotypes in three Western Pacific arc hydrothermal vent systems. Extremophiles, 11, 191-202.
3. Embley, R. W., Baker, E. T., Chadwick, W. W. Jr., Lupton, J. E., Resing, J. A., Massoth, G. J., Nakamura, K. (2004) Explorations of Mariana Arc volcanoes reveal new hydrothermal systems. Eos (Trans. Am. Geophys. Union), 85, 37-40.
4. Fryer, P. (1995) Geology of the Mariana Trough. In Taylor, B. (ed.) Back arc basins: Tectonics and magmatism. Plenum Press, New York, 237-279.
5. Fryer, P., Fujimoto, H., Sekine, M., Johnson, L. E., Kasahara, J., Masuda, H., Gamo, T., Ishii, T., Ariyoshi, M. and Fujioka, K. (1998) Volcanoes of the southwestern extension of the active Mariana island arc: New swath-mapping and geochemical studies. Isl. Arc, 7, 596-607.
6. Gamo, T., Masuda, H., Yamanaka, T., Okamura, K., Ishibashi, J., Nakayama, E., Obata, H., Shitashima, K., Nishio, Y., Hashimoto, H., Watanabe, M., Mitsuzawa, K., Seama, N., Tsunogai, U., Kouzuma, F. and Sano, Y. (2004) Discovery of a new hydrothermal venting site in the southernmost Mariana Arc: Al-rich hydrothermal plumes and white smoker activity associated with biogenic methane. Geochem. J., 38, 527-534.
7. Herzig, P. M. and Hannington, M. D. (1995) Polymetallic massive sulfides at the modern seafloor, a review. Ore Geol. Rev., 10, 95-115.
8. Herzig, P. M., Hannington, M. D., Fouquet, Y., Stackelberg U. V. and Petersen, S. (1993) 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, 2182-2209.
9. Iizasa, K., Fiske, R. S., Ishizuka, O., Yuasa, M., Hashimoto, J., Ishibashi, J., Naka, J., Horii, Y., Fujiwara, Y., Imai, A. and Koyama, S. (1999) A kuroko-type polymetallic sulfide deposit in a submarine silicic caldera. Science, 283, 975-977.
10. Imai, A., Ishizuka, O., Yamada, R. and Miyamoto, H. (2001) Further occurrence of brown ores in Kuroko-type deposits in Japan. Resour. Geol., 51, 263-268.
11. Ishibashi, J. and Urabe, T. (1995) Hydrothermal activity related to arc-backarc magmatism in the Western Pacific. In Taylor, B. (ed.) Backarc basins: Tectonics and magmatism. Plenum Press, New York, 451-495.
12. Ishibashi, J., Yamanaka, T., Kimura, H., Hirota, A., Toki, T., Tsunogai, U., Gamo, T., Utsumi, M., Roe, K., Miyabe, S. and Okamura, K. (2004) Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids in south Mariana backarc spreading center (Abstract). Eos (Trans. Am. Geophys. Union.), Abstract 85.
13. Ishibashi, J., Yamanaka T., Kimura H., Toki, T. and Noguchi T. (2006a) Time series change of fluid geochemistry in decade scale: Case studies for hydrothermal systems in back-arc basin. Japan Geoscience Union, Ann. Meeting. Program with Abstract. Japan Geoscience Union, Tokyo, J161-014.
14. Ishibashi, J., Suzuki R., Yamanaka T., Toki T., Kimura H., Noguchi T. and Urabe T. (2006b) Seafloor hydrothermal activity at off-axial seamounts of backarc spreading in southern Mariana Trough. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 70 Suppl., A279.
15. Karig, D. E. (1971) Structural history of the Mariana island arc system. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 83, 323-344.
16. Kato, T., Beavan, J., Matsushima, T., Kotake, Y., Camacho, J. T. and Nakao, S. (2003) Geodetic evidence of back-arc spreading in the Mariana Trough. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1625-1629.
17. Klein, E. M. (2003) Geochemistry of the igneous oceanic crust. In Holland H. D. and Turekian K. K. (eds.) Treaties of geochemistry, Vol. 3. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 433-463.
18. Martinez, F., Fryer, P. and Becker, M. (2000) Geophysical characteristics of the southern Mariana trough, 11°50′N-13°40′N. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 16 591-16 607.
19. Masuda, A., Nakamura, N. and Tanaka, T. (1973) Fine structures of mutually normalized rare-earth patterns of chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 37, 239-248.
20. Masuda, H., Lutz, R. A., Matsumoto, S., Masumoto, S. and Fujioka, K. (1994) Topography and geochemical aspects on the most recent volcanism around the spreading axis of the southern Mariana Trough at 13°N. JAMSTEC J. Deep Sea Res., 10, 175-185 (in Japanese).
21. Masuda, H., Mitsuzawa, K., Seama, N., Masumoto, S. and YK-99-11 Shipboard Scientific Party (2001) Bathymetry and hydrothermal activities in the southern Mariana Trough: Reconnaissance results of YK-99-11. JAMSTEC J. Deep Sea Res., 18, 83-88 (in Japanese).
22. Nakagawa, T., Takai, K., Suzuki, Y., Hirayama, H., Konno, U., Tsunogai, U. and Horikoshi, K. (2006) Geomicrobiological exploration and characterization of a novel deep-sea hydrothermal system at the TOTO caldera in the Mariana Volcanic Arc. Environ Microbiol, 8, 37-49.
23. Ohmoto, H. (1996) Formation of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: The Kuroko perspective. Ore Geol. Rev., 10, 135-177.
24. Ohmoto, H. and Goldhaber, M. B. (1987) Sulfur and carbon isotopes In Barnes, H. L. (ed.) Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits. John Willey and Sons, New York, 217-611.
25. Ohmoto, H. and Lasaga, A. C. (1982) Kinetics of reactions between aqueous sulfates and sulfides in hydrothermal systems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 46, 1727-1745.
26. Pearce, J. A., Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H. and Fryer, P. (2005) Geochemical mapping of the Mariana arc-basin system: Implications for the nature and distribution of subduction components. Geochim. Geophys. Geosys. 6, Q07006, doi:10.1029/2004GC000895
27. Scott, R. B., Kroenke, G., Zakariadze, G. and Sharaskin, A. (1981) Evolution of the south Philippine Sea: Deep sea drilling project Leg 59 Results. Initial Report of DSDP 59, 803-815.
28. Shanks, W. C. III (2001) Stable isotopes in seafloor hydrothermal systems, In Valley, J. W. and Cole, D. (eds.) Stable isotope geochemistry. Rev. Mineral. Geochem., 43, 469-525.
29. Stepanova, T. V., Krasnov, S. G. and Cherkashev, G. A. (1996) Mineralogy, chemical composition and structure of the MIR mound, TAG hydrothermal field. Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3515-3518.
30. Stern, R. J., Fouch, M. J. and Klemperer, S. L. (2003) An overview of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction factory. In Eiler, J. (ed.) Inside the subduction factory. Geophys. Monogr. Ser. 138, 175-222.
31. Tanimura, S., Date, J., Takahashi, T. and Ohmoto, H. (1983) Stratigraphy and structure of the Hokuroku district. Econ. Geol. Monogr., 5, 24-38.
32. Taylor, B. and Martinez, F. (2003) Back-arc basalt systematics. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 210, 481-497.
33. Woodruff, L. G. and Shanks, W. C. III. (1988) Sulfur isotope study of chimney minerals and vent fluids from 21°N, east pacific rise: Hydrothermal sulfur sources and disequilibrium sulfate reduction. J. Geophys. Res., 93, 4562-4572.
34. Yamatnani, Y., Masuda, H., Amakawa, H., Nozaki, Y. and Gamo, T. (1994) Rare earth element chemistry of submarine volcanic rocks from a spreading axis, the southern Mariana Trough. JAMSTEC J. Deep Sea Res., 10, 187-193.