Geochemical constraints on the origin of the late Jurassic proto-Caribbean oceanic crust in Hispaniola |
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Authors: | J Escuder Viruete A Pérez-Estaún D Weis |
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Institution: | 1.Instituto Geológico y Minero de Espa?a,Madrid,Spain;2.I.C.T. Jaume Almera-CSIC,Barcelona,Spain;3.Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,Canada;4.Instituto Geológico y Minero de Espa?a, Area de Geología y Geofísica,Tres Cantos, Madrid,Spain |
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Abstract: | The nature of the oceanic crust produced through rifting and oceanic spreading between North and South America during the
Late Jurassic is a key element for the Caribbean plate tectonic model reconstruction. Located in the Cordillera Central of
Hispaniola, the Loma La Monja volcano-plutonic assemblage (LMA) is composed of gabbros, dolerites, basalts, and oceanic sediments,
as well as metamorphic equivalents, which represent a dismembered fragment of this proto-Caribbean oceanic crust. Petrologic
and geochemical data show that the LMA have a relatively broad diversity in composition, which represent the crystallization
products of a typical low-pressure tholeiitic fractionation of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB)-type parental magmas, ranging
from N- to E-MORB. Three geochemical groups have been distinguished in the volcanic sequence: LREE-flat to slightly LREE-enriched
basalts of groups II and III occur interlayered in the lower stratigraphic levels; and LREE-depleted basalts of group I in
the upper levels. Mantle melt modeling suggests that group III magmas are consistent by mixing within a mantle melt column
of low-degree (<1%) melts of a deep garnet lherzolite source and high-degree (>15%) melts of a shallow spinel source, and
groups II and I magmas are explained with moderate to high (14–18%) and very high (>20%) fractional melting degrees of a shallower
spinel mantle source, respectively. Thus, upward in the volcanic sequence of the LMA, the magmas represent progressively more
extensive melting of shallower sources, in a plume-influenced spreading ridge of the proto-Caribbean oceanic crust. Nb/Y versus
Zr/Y systematics combined with recent plate tectonic model reconstructions reveal that Caribbean Colombian oceanic plateau
fragments in Hispaniola formed through melting of heterogeneous mantle source regions related with distinct plumes during
at least from Aptian–Albian (>96 Ma) to Late Campanian. |
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Keywords: | Spreading ridge Mantle plume Mantle melting Oceanic crust Hispaniola Caribbean plate |
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