Intensive hydration of the mantle transition zone beneath China caused by ancient slab stagnation

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 713-716

  Kuritani, Takeshi ^a,b   Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Kimura, Jun Ichi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CENOZOIC; CORRELATION; DEHYDRATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRATION; MANTLE; SLAB; STAGNATION FLOW; TIMESCALE; TRANSITION ZONE;

CHINA;

EID: 80053518735     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1250     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Smyth, J. R. -Mg2SiO4: A potential host for water in the mantle? Am. Mineral. 72, 1051-1055 (1987).
2. Inoue, T., Yurimoto, H. & Kudoh, Y. Hydrous modified spinel, Mg1:75SiH0:5O4: A new water reservoir in the mantle transition region. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22, 117-120 (1995).
3. Ohtani, E., Litasov, K., Hosoya, T., Kubo, T. & Kondo, T. Water transport into the deep mantle and formation of a hydrous transition zone. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 143-144, 255-269 (2004). (Pubitemid 38653435)
4. Karato, S. Water distribution across the mantle transition zone and its implications for global material circulation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 301, 413-423 (2011).
5. Utada, H., Koyama, T., Obayashi, M. & Fukao, Y. A joint interpretation of electromagnetic and seismic tomography models suggests the mantle transition zone below Europe is dry. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 281, 249-257 (2009).
6. Zhao, D., Tian, Y., Lei, J., Liu, L. & Zheng, S. Seismic image and origin of the Changbai intraplate volcano in East Asia: Role of big mantle wedge above the stagnant Pacific slab. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 173, 197-206 (2009).
7. Ohtani, E. & Zhao, D. The role of water in the deep upper mantle and transition zone: Dehydration of stagnant slabs and its effects on the big mantle wedge. Russ. Geol. Geophys. 50, 1073-1078 (2009).
8. Fukao, Y., Obayashi, M., Inoue, H. & Nenbai, M. Subducting slabs stagnant in the mantle transition zone. J. Geophys. Res. 97, 4809-4822 (1992).
9. Richard, G. C. & Iwamori, H. Stagnant slab, wet plumes and Cenozoic volcanism in East Asia. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 183, 280-287 (2010).
10. Chen, Y., Zhang, Y., Graham, D., Su, S. & Deng, J. Geochemistry of Cenozoic basalts and mantle xenoliths in northeast China. Lithos 96, 108-126 (2007). (Pubitemid 46731155)
11. Kuritani, T. et al. Intraplate magmatism related to deceleration of upwelling asthenospheric mantle: Implications from the Changbaishan shield basalts, northeast China. Lithos 112, 247-258 (2009).
12. Zindler, A. & Hart, S. Chemical geodynamics. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 14, 493-571 (1986).
13. Basu, A. R., Junwen, W., Wankang, H., Guanghong, X. & Tatsumoto, M. Major element, REE, and Pb, Nd and Sr isotopic geochemistry of Cenozoic volcanic rocks of eastern China: Implications for their origin from suboceanic-type mantle reservoirs. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 105, 149-169 (1991).
14. Gao, S. et al. Recycling lower continental crust in the North China craton. Nature 432, 892-897 (2004). (Pubitemid 40037148)
15. Murphy, D. T., Collerson, K. D. & Kamber, B. S. Lamproites from Gaussberg, Antarctica: Possible transition zone melts of Archaean subducted sediments. J. Petrol. 43, 981-1001 (2002). (Pubitemid 34674406)
16. Griffin, W. L., Andi, Z., O'Reilly, S. Y. & Ryan, C. G. in Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interactions in East Asia (eds Flower, M. F. G., Chung, S-L., Lo, C-H. & Lee, T-Y.) 107-126 (Geodynam. Ser. Vol. 27, American Geophysical Union, 1998).
17. Rehkämper, M. & Hofmann, A. W. Recycled ocean crust and sediment in Indian Ocean MORB. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 147, 93-106 (1997).
18. Hauff, F., Hoernle, K. & Schmidt, A. Sr-Nd-Pb composition of Mesozoic Pacific oceanic crust (Site 1149 and 801, ODP Leg 185): Implications for alteration of ocean crust and the input into the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction system. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 4, 8913 (2003).
19. Fukao, Y., Widiyantoro, S. & Obayashi, M. Stagnant slabs in the upper and lower mantle transition region. Rev. Geophys. 39, 291-323 (2001). (Pubitemid 32901531)
20. Murphy, D. T., Kamber, B. S. & Collerson, K. D. A refined solution to the first terrestrial Pb-isotope paradox. J. Petrol. 44, 39-53 (2003). (Pubitemid 36129076)
21. Choi, S. H., Mukasa, S. B., Zhou, X-H., Xian, X. H. & Andronikov, A. V. Mantle dynamics beneath East Asia constrained by Sr, Nd, Pb and Hf isotopic systematics of ultramafic xenoliths and their host basalts from Hannuoba, North China. Chem. Geol. 248, 40-61 (2008).
22. Bercovici, D. & Karato, S. Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter. Nature 425, 39-44 (2003). (Pubitemid 37101710)
23. Rapp, R. P. et al. Subduction recycling of continental sediments and the origin of geochemically enriched reservoirs in the deep mantle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 271, 14-23 (2008).
24. Ben Othmann, D., White, W. M. & Patchett, J. The geochemistry of marine sediments, island arc magma genesis, and crust-mantle recycling. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 94, 1-21 (1989).
25. Grove, T. L. & Parman, S. W. Thermal evolution of the Earth as recorded by komatiites. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 219, 173-187 (2004). (Pubitemid 38335582)
26. Withers, A. C. & Hirschmann, M. M. Influence of temperature, composition, silica activity and oxygen fugacity on the H2O storage capacity of olivine at 8 GPa. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 156, 595-605 (2008).
27. Le Pichon, X. Sea-floor spreading and continental drift. J. Geophys. Res. 73, 3661-3697 (1968).
28. Liu, J., Han, J. & Fyfe, W. S. Cenozoic episodic volcanism and continental rifting in northeast China and possible link to Japan Sea development as revealed from K-Ar geochronology. Tectonophysics 339, 385-401 (2001). (Pubitemid 33127607)
29. Stacey, J. S. & Kramers, J. D. Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 26, 207-221 (1975).
30. Cousens, B. L. & Allan, J. F. A Pb, Sr, and Nd isotopic study of basaltic rocks from the Sea of Japan, LEGS 127/128. Proc. Ocean Drill. Program Sci. Results 127-128, 805-817 (1992). (Pubitemid 23386250)