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A Large-scale isotope anomaly in the Southern Hemisphere mantle Stanley R. Hart
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Figure 14-9. (Winter) From Hart (1984) Nature, 309, 753-756.
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Can Generate tholeiitic and alkaline basalts from a chemically uniform mantle Variables –Temperature –Pressure Figure 10-2 (Winter) Phase diagram of aluminous lherzolite with melting interval (gray), sub-solidus reactions, and geothermal gradient. After Wyllie, P. J. (1981). Geol. Rundsch. 70, 128-153.
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Trace Elements: REEs Figure 14-2. (Winter) After Wilson (1989) Igneous Petrogenesis. Kluwer.
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Isotope Geochemistry Isotopes do not fractionate during partial melting of fractional melting processes, so will reflect the characteristics of the source OIBs, which sample a great expanse of oceanic mantle in places where crustal contamination is minimal, provide incomparable evidence as to the nature of the mantle
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Pb Isotopes Pb produced by radioactive decay of U & Th 238 U 234 U 206 Pb 235 U 207 Pb 232 Th 208 Pb
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Pb is quite scarce in the mantle –Mantle-derived melts susceptible to contamination –U, Pb, and Th are concentrated in continental crust (high radiogenic daughter Pb isotopes) – 204 Pb is non-radiogenic, so 208 Pb/ 204 Pb, 207 Pb/ 204 Pb, and 206 Pb/ 204 Pb increase as U and Th decay –Oceanic crust has elevated U and Th content (compared to the mantle) as will sediments derived from oceanic and continental crust –Pb is a sensitive measure of crustal (including sediment) components in mantle isotopic systems
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Figure 14-8. After Wilson (1989) Igneous Petrogenesis. Kluwer. Data from Hamelin and Allègre (1985), Hart (1984), Vidal et al. (1984).
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Can map the geographic distribution of the isotopic data Figure 14-9. From Hart (1984) Nature, 309, 753-756.
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Isotopically enriched reservoirs (EMI, EMII, and HIMU) are too enriched for any known mantle process, and they correspond to crustal rocks and/or sediments EMI (slightly enriched) correlates with lower continental crust or oceanic crust EMII is more enriched, especially in radiogenic Sr (indicating the Rb parent) and Pb (U/Th parents) correlates with the upper continental crust or ocean-island crust
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A Model for Oceanic Magmatism DM OIB ContinentalReservoirs EM and HIMU from crustal sources (subducted OC + CC seds) Figure 14-10. Nomenclature from Zindler and Hart (1986). After Wilson (1989) and Rollinson (1993).
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