Insights from trace element geochemistry as to the roles of subduction zone geometry and subduction input on the chemistry of arc magmas

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1929-1944

  Wehrmann, Heidi ^a   Hoernle, Kaj ^a   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^a,b   Jacques, Guillaume ^a   Mahlke, Julia ^a   Schumann, Kai ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central American Volcanic Arc; Chilean Southern Volcanic Zone; Hydrous flux melting; Marine sediment input; Subduction zones; Trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LAVA; MAGMA CHEMISTRY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MELTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANO;

CHILE; COSTA RICA;

EID: 84908604807     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-013-0917-1     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Abers GA, van Keken PE, Kneller EA, Ferris A, Stachnik JC (2006) The thermal structure of subduction zones constrained by seismic imaging: implications for slab dehydration and wedge flow. Earth Planet Sci Lett 241(3–4):387–397. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.055
2. Aubouin J, von Huene R (1982) Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, vol 67. Washington DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 799 p
3. Bangs NL, Cande SC (1997) Episodic development of a convergent margin inferred from structures and processes along the southern Chile margin. Tectonics 16(3):489–503
4. Benjamin ER, Plank T, Wade JA, Kelley KA, Hauri EH, Alvarado GE (2007) High water contents in basaltic magmas from Irazú Volcano, Costa Rica. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 168:68–92. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.08.008
5. Carr MJ (1984) Symmetrical and segmented variation of physical and geochemical characteristics of the Central American volcanic front. J Volcanol Geotherm Res 20:231–252
6. Carr MJ, Feigenson MD, Bennett EA (1990) Incompatible element and isotopic evidence for tectonic control of source mixing and melt extraction along the Central American Volcanic Arc. Contrib Mineral Petrol 105:369–380. doi:10.1007/BF00286825
7. Carr MJ, Saginor I, Alvarado GE, Bolge LL, Lindsay FN, Milidakis K, Turrin BD, Feigenson MD, Swisher CC III (2007) Element fluxes from the volcanic front of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 8:Q06001. doi:10.1029/2006GC001396
8. 2O/Ce: 1. Slab surface temperatures beneath volcanic arcs. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 13:Q03024. doi:10.1029/2011GC003902
9. Coulbourn WT, Hesse R, Azema J, Shiki T (1982) A summary of the sedimentology of DSDP leg 67 sites: the Middle America trench and slope of Guatemala—an active margin transect. In: Aubouin J et al (eds) Initial reports DSDP 67:759–774
10. Davidson JP, Dungan MA, Ferguson KM, Colucci MT (1987) Crust-magma interactions and the evolution of arc magmas: the San Pedro-Pellado volcanic complex, southern Chilean Andes. Geology 15:443–446
11. DeMets C (2001) A new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion: implications for slip along the Central American Volcanic Arc. Geophys Res Let 28:4043–4046
12. Dungan MA, Wulff A, Thomson R (2001) Eruptive stratigraphy of the Tatara-San Pedro complex, 36°S, Southern Volcanic Zone, Chilean Andes: reconstruction method and implications for magma evolution at long-lived arc volcanic centers. J Petrol 42(3):555–626
13. Dzierma Y, Rabbel W, Thorwart M, Koulakov I, Wehrmann H, Hoernle K, Comte D (2012) Seismic velocity structure of the slab and continental plate in the region of the 1960 Valdivia (Chile) slip maximum—insights into fluid release and plate coupling. Earth Planet Sci Lett 331/332C:164–176. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.02.006
14. Eiler JM, Carr MJ, Reagan M, Stolper E (2005) Oxygen isotope constraints on the sources of Central American arc lavas. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 6:Q07007. doi:10.1029/2004GC000804
15. Ferguson KM, Dungan MA, Davidson JP, Colucci MT (1992) The Tatara-San Pedro Volcano, 36 °S Chile: a chemically variable, dominantly mafic magmatic system. J Petrol 33(1):1–43
16. Garbe-Schönberg CD (1993) Simultaneous determination of thirty-seven trace elements in twenty-eight international rock standards by ICP-MS. Geostand Newsl 17:81–97. doi:10.1111/j.1751-908X.1993.tb00122.x
17. Gazel E, Carr MJ, Hoernle K, Feigenson MD, Szymanski D, Hauff F, van den Bogaard P (2009) Galapagos-OIB signature in southern Central America: mantle refertilization by arc—hot spot interaction. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 10:Q02S11. doi:10.1029/2008GC002246
18. Geldmacher J, Hoernle K, van den Bogaard P, Hauff F, Klügel A (2008) Age and geochemistry of the Central American forearc basement (DSDP Leg 67 and 84): insights into Mesozoic arc volcanism and seamount accretion on the fringe of the Caribbean LIP. J Petrol 49(10):1781–1815. doi:10.1093/petrology/egn046
19. Geldmacher J, Höfig T, Hauff F, Hoernle K, Garbe-Schönberg D, Wilson DS (2013) Influence of the Galápagos hotspot on the East Pacific Rise during Miocene superfast spreading. Geology 41:183–186. doi:10.1130/G33533.1
20. Goss A, Kay SM (2006) Steep REE patterns and enriched Pb isotopes in southern Central American arc magmas: evidence for forearc subduction erosion? Geochem Geophys Geosyst 7:Q05016. doi:10.1029/2005GC001163
21. Grevemeyer I, Ranero CR, Flueh ER, Kläschen D, Bialas J (2007) Passive and active seismological study of bending-related faulting and mantle serpentinization at the Middle America trench. Earth Planet Sci Lett 258:528–542. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.013
22. Grove TL, Baker MB (1984) Phase equilibrium controls on the tholeiitic versus calc-alkaline differentiation trends. J Geophys Res 89/B5:3253–3274
23. Hacker BR (2008) H2O subduction beyond arcs. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 9(3):Q03001. doi:10.1029/2007GC001707
24. Halama R, John T, Herms P, Hauff F, Schenk V (2011) A stable (Li, O) and radiogenic (Sr, Nd) isotope perspective on metasomatic processes in a subducting slab. Chem Geol 281:151–166. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.12.001
25. Heydolph K, Hoernle K, Hauff F, van den Bogaard P, Portnyagin M, Bindeman I, Garbe-Schönberg D (2012) Along and across arc geochemical variations in NW Central America: evidence for involvement of lithospheric pyroxenite. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 84:459–491. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.01.035
26. Hickey RL, Gerlach DC, Frey FA (1984) Geochemical variations in volcanic rocks from central-south Chile (33°–42°S). In: Harmon RS, Barreiro BA (eds) Andean Magmatism: chemical and isotopic constraints. Shiva Publishing, Cheshire, England, pp 72–95
27. Hildreth W, Moorbath S (1988) Crustal contributions to arc magmatism in the Andes. Contrib Mineral Petrol 98:455–489
28. Hoernle K, Werner R, Phipps-Morgan J, Garbe-Schönberg D, Bryce J, Mrazek J (2000) Existence of complex spatial zoning in the Galapagos Plume. Geology 28:435–438. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<435:EOCSZI>2.0.CO;2
29. Hoernle K, Tilton G, le Bas MJ, Duggen S, Garbe-Schönberg D (2002) Geochemistry of oceanic carbonatites compared with continental carbonatites: mantle recycling of oceanic crustal carbonate. Contrib Mineral Petrol 142:520–542. doi:10.1007/s004100100308
30. Hoernle K, Abt DL, Fischer KM, Nichols H, Hauff F, Abers G, van den Bogaard P, Alvarado G, Protti JM, Strauch W (2008) Geochemical and geophysical evidence for arc-parallel flow in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Nature 451:1094–1097. doi:10.1038/nature06550
31. Hoernle K, Hauff F, Hanan F, Werner R, Christie D, Garbe-Schönberg D (2010) Seamount South of the Galapagos Spreading Center provide new constraints on plume-ridge interaction and evidence for a depleted plume component. Eos Trans AGU 91(52), Fall Meet Suppl, Abstract V52A-08
32. Hofman AV, Jochum KP, Seufert M, White WM (1986) Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution. Earth Planet Sci Lett 79:33–45
33. Ivandic M, Grevemeyer I, Berhorst A, Flueh ER, McIntosh K (2007) Impact of bending related faulting on the seismic properties of the incoming oceanic plate offshore of Nicaragua. J Geophys Res 113:B05410. doi:10.1029/2007JB005291
34. Jacques G, Hoernle K, Gill J, Hauff F, Wehrmann H, Garbe-Schönberg D, van den Bogaard P, Bindeman I, Lara LE (2013) Across-arc geochemical variations in the Southern Volcanic Zone, Chile (34.5–38.0°S): constraints on mantle wedge and input compositions. Geochim Cosmochim Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.05.016
35. Jicha BR, Smith KE, Singer BS, Beard BL, Johnson CM, Rogers NW (2010) Crustal assimilation no match for slab fluids beneath Volcán de Santa María, Guatemala. Geology 38:859–862. doi:10.1130/G31062.1
36. John T, Scambelluri M, Frische M, Barnes JD, Bach W (2011) Dehydration of subducting serpentinite: implications for halogen mobility in subduction zones and the deep halogen cycle. Earth Planet Sci Lett 308:65–76. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.038
37. Kay RW, Kay SM (1993) Delamination and delamination magmatism. Tectonophysics 219:177–189
38. Kay SM, Mpodozis C (2002) Magmatism as a probe to the Neogene shallowing of the Nazca plate beneath the modern Chilean flat-slab. J South Am Earth Sci 15:39–57
39. Kessel R, Schmidt MW, Ulmer P, Pettke T (2005) Trace element signature of subduction-zone fluids, melts and supercritical liquids at 120–180 km depth. Nature 437:724–727. doi:10.1038/nature03971
40. LeMaitre RW, Bateman P, Dudek A, Keller J, Lameyre J, Le Bas MJ, Sabine PA, Schmid R, Sorensen H, Streckeisen A, Woolley RA, Zanettin B (1989) A classification of igneous rocks and glossary of terms, recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences Subcommission on the systematics of igneous rocks, vol 193. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford
41. López-Escobar L, Parada MA, Moreno H, Frey FA, Hickey-Vargas R (1992) A contribution to the petrogenesis of Osorno and Calbuco volcanoes, Southern Andes (41°00′–41°30′S): comparative study. Rev Geol Chile 19:211–226
42. Lucassen F, Wiedecke M, Franz G (2010) Complete recycling of a magmatic arc: evidence from chemical and isotopic composition of Quaternary trench sediments in Chile (36°–40°S). Int J Earth Sci 99:687–701. doi:10.1007/s00531-008-0410-4
43. MacKenzie L, Abers GA, Fisher KM, Syracuse EM, Protti JM, Gonzales V, Strauch W (2008) Crustal structure along the southern Central American volcanic front. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 9/8:Q08S09. doi:10.1029/2008GC001991
44. Melnick D, Echtler HP (2006) Inversion of forearc basins in south-central Chile caused by rapid glacial age trench fill. Geology 34(9):709–712. doi:10.1130/G22440.1
45. Patino LC, Carr MJ, Feigenson MD (2000) Local and regional variations in Central American arc lavas controlled by variations in subducted sediment input. Contrib Mineral Petrol 138(3):265–283
46. Peacock SM, van Keken PE, Holloway SD, Hacker BR, Abers GA, Fergason RL (2005) Thermal structure of the Costa Rica—Nicaragua subduction zone. Phys Earth Planet Int 149:187–200. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2004.08.030
47. Pearce JA (1983) Role of the sub-continental lithosphere in magma genesis at active continental margins. In: Hawkesworth C, Norry M (eds) Continental basalts and mantle xenoliths. Shiva Geology Series, Nantwich, pp 230–249
48. Pearce JA (2008) Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust. Lithos 100:14–48. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2007.06.016
49. Phipps-Morgan J, Ranero C, Vanucchi P (2008) Intra-arc extension in Central America: links between plate motions, tectonics, volcanism, and geochemistry. Earth Planet Sci Lett 272:365–371. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.004
50. Plank T (2005) Constraints from Thorium/Lanthanum on sediment recycling at subduction zones and the evolution of the continents. J Petrol 46(5):921–944. doi:10.1093/petrology/egi005
51. Plank T, Langmuir CH (1993) Tracing trace elements from sediment input to volcanic output at subduction zones. Nature 362:739–743
52. Plank T, Balzer V, Carr M (2002) Nicaraguan Volcanoes record paleoceanographic changes accompanying closure of the Panama gateway. Geology 30(12):1087–1090. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030
53. Ranero C, Phipps Morgan J, McIntosh K, Reichert C (2003) Bending-related faulting and mantle serpentinization at the Middle America trench. Nature 425:367–373. doi:10.1038/nature01961
54. Reagan M, Gill J (1989) Coexisting calcalkaline and high-niobium basalts from Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica: implications for residual titanates in arc magma sources. J Geophys Res 94:4619–4633. doi:10.1029/JB094iB04p04619
55. Reubi O, Bourdon B, Dungan MA, Koornneef JM, Sellés D, Langmuir CH, Aciego S (2011) Assimilation of the plutonic roots of the Andean arc controls variations in U-series disequilibria at Volcán Llaima, Chile. Earth Planet Sci Lett 303:37–47. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.018
56. Rickwood PC (1989) Boundary lines within petrologic diagrams which use oxides of major and minor elements. Lithos 22:247–263
57. Rychert CA, Fischer KM, Abers GA, Plank T, Syracuse E, Protti JM, Gonzales V, Strauch W (2008) Strong along-arc variations in attenuation in the mantle wedge beneath Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Gechem Geophys Geosyst 9:Q10S10. doi:10.1029/2008GC002040
58. Sadofsky SJ, Portnyagin MV, Hoernle K, van den Bogaard P (2008) Subduction cycling of volatile and trace elements through the Central American volcanic arc: evidence from melt inclusions. Contrib Mineral Petrol 155(4):433–456. doi:10.1007/s00410-007-0251-3
59. Sadofsky SJ, Hoernle K, Duggen S, Hauff F, Werner R (2009) Geochemical variations on the Cocos Plate subducting offshore of Central America. Int J Earth Sci 98:901–913. doi:10.1007/s00531-007-0289-5
60. Salters VJM, Stracke A (2004) Composition of the depleted mantle. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 5(5):Q05004. doi:10.1029/2003GC000597
61. Savov IP, Ryan JG, D’Antonio M, Fryer P (2007) Shallow slab fluid release across and along the Mariana arc-basin system: insights from geochemistry of serpentinized peridotites from the Mariana fore arc. J Geophys Res 112:B09205. doi:10.1029/2006JB004749
62. Sellés D (2006) Stratigraphy, petrology, and geochemistry of Nevado de Longaví volcano, Chilean Andes (36.2°S). PhD thesis, Université de Geneve, 103 p
63. Sellés D, Rodríguez C, Dungan MA, Naranjo J, Gardeweg M (2004) Geochemistry of Nevado de Longaví volcano (36.2°S): a compositionally atypical arc volcano in the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes. Rev Geol Chile 31:293–315
64. 2O in calc-alkaline differentiation and subduction zone magmatism. Contrib Mineral Petrol 113:143–166
65. Spandler C, Hermann J, Faure K, Mavrogenes JA, Arculus RJ (2008) The importance of talc and chlorite ‘‘hybrid’’ rocks for volatile recycling through subduction zones; evidence from the high-pressure subduction melange of New Caledonia. Contrib Mineral Petrol 155:181–198. doi:10.1007/s00410-007-0236-2
66. Stern CR (2004) Active Andean volcanism: its geologic and tectonic setting. Rev Geol Chile 31(2):161–206
67. Sun SS, McDonough WF (1989) Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. Geol Soc London Spec Pub 42:313–345. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1989.042.01.19
68. Syracuse EM, Abers GA (2006) Global compilation of variations in slab depth beneath arc volcanoes and implications. Geochem Geophys Geosys 7(5):Q05017. doi:10.1029/2005GC001045
69. Syracuse EM, van Keken PE, Abers GA (2010) The global range of subduction zone thermal models. Phys Earth Planet Interiors 183:73–90. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.004
70. Tassara A, Götze HJ, Schmidt S, Hackney R (2006) Three-dimensional density model of the Nazca plate and the Andean continental margin. J Geophys Res 111(B09404). doi:10.1029/2005JB003976
71. Tatsumi Y (1986) Formation of the volcanic front in subduction zones. Geophys Res Let 13(8):717–720
72. 10Be. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 50:535–550. doi:10.1016/016-7037(86)90103-1
73. Ulmer P, Trommsdorff V (1999) Phase relations of hydrous mantle subducting to 300 km. In: Fei Y, Bertka N, Mysen BO (eds) Mantle petrology: field observations and high pressure experimentation. Geochemical Society of Special Publication 6:259–281
74. 2O from subducting slabs worldwide. J Geophys Res 116(B01401). doi:10.1029/2010JB007922
75. Völker D, Kutterolf S, Wehrmann H (2011) Comparative mass balance of volcanic edifices at the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes between 33°S and 46°S. J Volc Geotherm Res 205:114–129. doi:10.1016/j.volgeores.2011.03.011
76. von Huene R, Scholl DW (1991) Observations concerning sediment subduction and subduction erosion, and the growth of continental crust at convergent ocean margins. Rev Geophys 29:279–316
77. Watt SFL, Pyle DM, Mather TA (2011) Geology, petrology and geochemistry of the dome complex of Huequi volcano, southern Chile. Andean Geol 38(1):335–348
78. Wehrmann H, Hoernle K, Jacques G, Garbe-Schönberg D, Schumann K, Mahlke J, Lara L (in review/this volume) Volatile (sulphur and chlorine), major, and trace element geochemistry of mafic to intermediate tephras from the Chilean Southern Volcanic Zone (33–43°S). Int J Earth Sci
79. 2 output at the Central American subduction zone inferred from melt inclusions in olivine crystals from mafic tephras. Geochem Geophys Geosys 12(6):Q06003. doi:10.1029/2010GC003412
80. Werner R, Hoernle K, van den Bogaard P, Ranero C, von Huene R, Korich D (1999) Drowned 14-m.y.-old Galapagos Archipelago off the coast of Costa Rica; implications for tectonic and evolutionary models. Geology 27:499–502. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0499:DMYOGP>2.3.CO;2
81. Werner R, Hoernle K, Barckhausen U, Hauff F (2003) Geodynamic evolution of the Galápagos hot spot system (central east Pacific) over the past 20 m.y.: constraints from morphology, geochemistry, and magnetic anomalies. Geochem Geophys Geosyst 4(12):1108. doi:10.1029/2003GC000576