A Mid Cretaceous origin for the Galápagos hotspot: Volcanological, petrological and geochemical evidence from Costa Rican oceanic crustal segments

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-155

  Hauff, F ^a   Hoernle, K ^a   Schmincke, H U ^a   Werner, R ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Galapagos islands; Geochemistry; Hotspot; Isotopes; Oceanic crust; Ophiolites; Petrology; Volcanology

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249134673     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Aitken BG, Echeverria LM (1984) Petrology and geochemistry of komatiites and tholeiites from Gorgona island, Colombia. Contrib Mineral Petrol 86:94-105
2. Albarede F, Tamagnan V (1898) Modelling the recent geochemical evolution of the Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, Réunion Island, 1931-1986. J Petrol 29:997-1030
3. Alvarado GE, Kussmaul S, Chiesa S, Gillot P-Y, Appel H, Wörner G, Rundle C (1992) Resumen chronostratigráphico de las rocas igneas de Costa Rica basado en dataciones radiométricas K-Ar y U-Th. J South Am Earth Sei 6:151-168
4. Baumgartner PO, Mora CR, JR, Sigal J, Glaon G, Azéma J, Bourgois J (1984) Sedimentacion y paleogeografia del Cretacico y Cenozoico del litoral Pacifico de Costa Rica. Rev Geol Am Centr 1:57-136
5. Burke K (1988) Tectonic evolution in the Caribbean. Ann Rev Earth Planet Sei 16:201-230
6. Campbell IH, Griffiths RW (1990) Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts. Earth Planet Sei Lett 99:79-93
7. Chaffey DJ, Cliff RA, Wilson BM (1989) Characterization of the St Helena magma source. In: Saunders AD, Norry MJ (eds) Magmatism in the ocean basins. Spec Publ Geol Soc Lond 42: 257-276
8. Christie DM, Duncan RA, McBirney AR, Richards MA, White WM, Harpp KS, Fox CG (1992) Drowned islands downstream from the Galapagos hotspot imply extended speciation times. Nature 355: 246-248
9. Coleman RG (1977) Ophiolites. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 1-229
10. Devey CW, Garbe-Schönberg CD, Stoffers P, Chauvel C, Mertz DF (1994) Geochemical effects of dynamic melting beneath ridges: reconciling major and trace element variations in Kolbeinsey (and global) mid-ocean ridge basalt. J Geophys Res 99:9077-9095
11. Di Marco G, Baumgartner PO, Channel JET (1995) Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary paleomagnetic data and a revised tectonostratigraphic subdivision of Costa Rica and western Panama. In: Mann P (ed) Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in southern Central America. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 295:1-27
12. Donelly TW, Melson W, Kay R, Rogers JJW (1973) Basalts and dolerites of late Cretaceous age from the Central Caribbean. In: Init Rpts Deep Sea Drilling Proj 15:989-1012
13. Donnelly TW, Beets D, Carr MJ, Jackson T, Klavier G, Lewis J, Maury R, Schellenkens H, Smith AL, Wadge G, Westercamp D (1990) History and tectonic setting of Caribbean magmatism. In: Dengo G and Case JE (ed) The Geology of North America, Vol H: The Caribbean Region, Geological Society America, Boulder, Colo.: 339-374
14. Duncan RA, Hargraves RB (1984) Caribbean region in the mantle reference frame. In: Bonini W, Hargraves RB, Shagam, R (eds) The Caribbean-South American plate boundary and regional tectonics. Geol Soc Am Mem 162:89-121
15. Dupré B, Echeverria LM (1984) Pb isotopes of Gorgona island (Colombia): isotop variations correlated with magma type. Earth Planet Sei Lett 67:186-190
16. Echeverria LM (1980) Tertiary or Mesozoic komatiites from Gorgona island, Colombia: field relations and geochemistry. Contrib Mineral Petrol 73:253-266
17. Fluh E (1983) The basic igneous complex - Trace of an ancient Galapagos hotspot aseismic ridge? Zbl Geo Paläont 3/4: 291-303
18. Frisch W, Meschede M, Sick M (1992) Origin of the Central American ophiolites: evidence from paleomagnetic results. Geol Soc Am Bull 104:1301-1314
19. Galli-Olivier C (1979) Ophiolite and island arc volcanism in Costa Rica. Geol Soc Am Bull 90:444-452
20. Garbe-Schönberg C-D (1993) Simultaneous determination of thirtyseven trace elements in twenty-eight international rock standards by ICP-MS. Geostand Newslett 17:81-97
21. Govindaraju K (1994) Compilation of working values and sample descriptions for 383 geostandards. Geostand Newslett 18: 1-158
22. Graham DW, Christie DM, Harpp KS, Lupton JE (1993) Mantle plume helium in submarine basalts from the Galapagos platform, science 262: 2023-2026
23. Griffiths RW, Campbell IH (1990) Stirring and structure in mantle plumes. Earth Planet Sei Lett 99:66-78
24. Griffiths RW, Campbell IH (1991) On the dynamics of long-lived plume conduits in the convecting mantle. Earth Planet Sei Lett 103:214-227
25. Gursky H-J (1994) The oldest sedimentary rocks of South Central America: the radiolarian cherts of the Nicoya Ophiolite Complex (?Early Jurassic to Late Cretaceous). Profil 7:265-277
26. Hart SR, Davis KE (1978) Nickel partitioning between olivine and silicate melt. Earth Planet Sei Lett 40:203-219
27. Hauff F, Hoernle K, Werner R, Schmincke H-U (1996) Origin of the central american ophiolites through plume/ridge interaction. J Conf Abstr 1(1): 238
28. Hémond C, Hofmann AW, Heusser G, Condomines M, Raczek I, Rhodes JM (1994) U-Th-Ra systematics in Kilauea and Mauna Loa basalts, Hawaii, Chem Geol 116: 163-180
29. Hergt JM, Storey M, Marriner G, Tarney J (1994) The Curaçao lava formation: samples of the oldest and most primitive magmas from the Galapagos plume. Mineral Mag 58:414-415
30. Hill RI (1993) Mantle plumes and continental tectonics. Lithos 30:193-206
31. Hinz K, Huene Rv, Ranero CR, Group PW (1996) Tectonic structure of convergent Pacific margin offshore Costa Rica from multichannel seismic reflection data. Tectonics 15:54-66
32. Hirose K, Kushiro I (1993) Partial melting of dry peridotites at high pressures: determination of compositions of melts segregated from peridotite using aggregates of diamond. Earth Planet Sei Lett 114:477-489
33. Hoernle KA, Schmincke H-U (1993) The role of partial melting in the 15-Ma geochemical evolution of Gran Canaria: a blob model for the Canary hotspot. J Petrol 34:599-626
34. Hoernle KA, Tilton G, Schmincke H-U (1991) Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic evolution of Gran Canaria: evidence for shallow enriched mantle beneath the Canary Islands. Earth Planet Sei Lett 106:44-63
35. Hoernle KA, Tilton GR (1991) Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data for Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) basal complex and subaerial volcanics: applications to magma genesis and evolution. Schweiz Mineral Petrogr Mitt 71:3-18
36. Hofmann AW, Jochum KP, Seufert M, White WM (1986) Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution. Earth Planet Sei Lett 79 : 33-45
37. Huene Rv, Bialas E, Flühl E, Cropp B, Csernok T, Fabel E, Hoffmann J, Emeis K, Holler P, Jeschke G, Leandro C, Peréz Fernandéz I, Chavarria S, Florez A, Escobedo Z, Léon R, Barrios O (1995) Morphotectonics of the Pacific convergent margin of Costa Rica. In: Mann P (ed) Geologie and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in southern Central America. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 295:291-307
38. Kerr AC, Tarney J, Marriner GF, Klaver GT, Saunders AD, Thirlwall MF (1996a) The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the late-Cretaceous picrites and basalts of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles: a remnent of an oceanic plateau. Contrib Mineral Petrol 124: 29-43
39. Kerr AC, Marriner GF, Arndt NT, Tarney J, Niva A, Saunders AD, Duncan RA (1996b) The petrogenesis of Gorgona komatiites, picrites and basalts: new field, petrographie and geochemical constraints. Lithos 37:245-260
40. Kinzler RJ, Grove TL (192) Primary magmas of mid-ocean ridge basalts 2. applications. J Geophys Res 97:6907-6926
41. Klein EM, Langmuir CH (1987) Global correlations of ocean ridge basalt chemistry with axial depth and crustal thickness. J Geophys Res 92:8089-8115
42. Langmuir CH, Klein EM, Plank T ( 1992) Petrological systematics of mid-ocean ridge basalts: constraints on melt generation beneath ocean ridges. In: Morgan JP, Blackman DK and Sinton JM (ed) Mantle flow and melt generation at mid-oceanic ridges. Am Geophys Union Monograph 781: 183-280
43. MannP(1995) Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in southern Central America. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 295:1-349
44. Moore JG, Schilling JG (1973) Vesicles, water and sulfur in Reykjanes Ridge basalts. Contrib Mineral Petrol 41: 105-118
45. Nabelek PI, Langmuir CH (1986) The significance of unusual zoning in olivines from FAMOUS area basalt 527-1-1. Contrib Mineral Petrol 93: 1-8
46. Natland JH, Melson WG (1980) Composition of basaltic glasses from the East Pacific Rise and Siqueiros fracture zone, near 9 °N. Init Rpts Deep Sea Drilling Proj 54:705-723
47. Puchelt, Emmermann R (1983) Petrogenetic implications of tholeiitic basalt glasses from the East Pacific Rise and the Galapagos spreading center. Chem Geol 38:39-56
48. Schmidt-Effing R (1979) Alter und Genese des Nicoya-Komplexes, einer ozeanischen Paläokruste (Oberjura bis Eozän) im südlichen Zentralamerika. Geol Rundsch 68:457-494
49. Sen G, Hickey-Vargas R, Waggoner DG, Maurasse F (1988) Geochemistry of basalts from the Dumisseau Formation, southern Haiti: implications for the origin of the Caribbean Sea crust. Earth Planet Sei Lett 87:423-437
50. 39Ar ages from Gorgona Island, Columbia and the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. EOS 74:553
51. Sinton JM, Smaglik SM, Mahoney JJ (1991) Magmatic processes at superfast spreading mid-ocean ridges: glass compositional variations along the East Pacific Rise 13°-23°. J Geophys Res 96:6133-6155
52. Storey M, Mahoney JJ, Kroenke LW, Saunders AD (1991) Are oceanic plateaus sites of komatiite formation? Geology 19: 376-379
53. Sun S-S, McDonough WF( 1989) Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: Saunders AD, Norry MJ (eds) Magmatism in the ocean basis. Spec Publ Geol Soc Lond 42:313-345
54. Tournon J (1984) Magmatismes du Mésozoiques àl'Actuel en Amérique Centrale: L'exemple de Costa Rica, des ophiolites aux andésites. Mém Sei de la Terre, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (84-49): 1-335
55. White WM, McBirney AR, Duncan RA (1993) Petrology and geochemistry of the Galapagos Islands: portrait of a pathological mantle plume. J Geophys Res 98:19533-19563