Isotopic constraints on the Easter Seamount Chain source |
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Authors: | Q C Cheng J D Macdougall P Zhu |
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Institution: | (1) Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA 92093-0220, USA, US |
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Abstract: | New isotopic data (Sr, Nd and Pb) for lavas from Easter and Salas y Gomez Islands, and nine seamounts along the length of
the Easter Seamount Chain (ESC) to the east of these islands, exhibit a regular behavior that is consistent with two-component
mixing between a MORB-like source and more enriched mantle (the Easter Plume source) characterized by relatively radiogenic
Pb and unradiogenic Sr. Based on the linearity of mixing trends on the isotope diagrams, the plume source appears to have
maintained approximately the same isotopic composition over the 20 to 30 Ma history of the Easter Plume sampled by the seamounts.
In current nomenclature, the plume source resembles a mix of predominantly HIMU mantle with a small amount of EMI. The proportions
of MORB and plume source mantle sampled by the lavas erupted along the ESC vary in a systematic way, with Easter Island and
seamounts to the west containing larger fractions of the MORB component than Salas y Gomez Island and the older seamounts
to the east. This variability is probably a reflection of the nearness to the spreading center, and therefore lithospheric
thickness, at the time of volcanism
Received: 27 April 1998 / Accepted: 11 December 1998 |
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