Processes controlling along-arc isotopic variation of the southern Izu-Bonin arc
Ishizuka, O., Taylor, R.N., Yuasa, M., Milton, J.A., Nesbitt, R.W., Uto, K. and Sakamoto, I. (2007) Processes controlling along-arc isotopic variation of the southern Izu-Bonin arc. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 8, Q06008. (doi:10.1029/2006GC001475).
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The southern Izu-Bonin arc is the volcanic representation of Pacific Ocean lithosphere subduction beneath the oceanic crust of the Philippine Sea plate. We present new geochemical data including high-precision Pb isotopic measurements from the 700 km length of this intraoceanic arc. An aim of this study is to link the along-arc characteristics with variations in the subducting Pacific crust. Chemical variations have been previously recognized along the northern section of the arc as a southward decrease in 87Sr/86Sr and increase in 206Pb/204Pb. This trend continues into the southern arc as far as 27.5°N. An overall correlation between 87Sr/86Sr and fluid-mobile element enrichment between 35 and 27.5°N implies a contribution of a slab-derived fluid, mainly from altered oceanic crust and pelagic sediment. However, the observation that volcanoes plot systematically closer to the Northern Hemisphere Reference Line (NHRL) with increasing 206Pb/204Pb indicates that a component other than pelagic sediment and ocean crust plays a key role toward the south. South of 27.5°N, the along-arc isotopic trend changes dramatically, with 87Sr/86Sr increasing southward from 27.5°N and the 206Pb/204Pb becoming highly radiogenic (∼19.6). This isotopic signature requires involvement of a component with high 206Pb/204Pb and low Δ8/4. Volcaniclastic sediments originating from HIMU oceanic islands on the subducting Pacific Plate are possible candidates to introduce such a component into the mantle wedge. This is consistent with the sedimentary section of ODP Site 801, located outboard of the Mariana arc which has >40% mass of HIMU volcaniclastics. An aqueous fluid, not melt, has played a major role in the source magma compositions in the 27.5–25°N segment. South of 25°N the isotopic characteristics again change significantly. 143Nd/144Nd decreases down to 0.51280, but the high 206Pb/204Pb and low Δ8/4 signatures are retained. The remarkable Th enrichment associated with low 143Nd/144Nd, Δ8/4, and Δ7/4 suggests that melting a mixture of HIMU volcaniclastics and pelagic sediment is responsible for the geochemical characteristics of this most southerly section.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1525-2027 (print) |
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| Keywords: | Izu-Bonin arc; slab component; HIMU; double-spike Pb |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QE Geology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Ocean & Earth Science (SOC/SOES) |
| Item ID: | 49711 |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 16:53 |
| Contributors: | Ishizuka, O. (Author) Taylor, R.N. (Author) Yuasa, M. (Author) Milton, J.A. (Author) Nesbitt, R.W. (Author) Uto, K. (Author) Sakamoto, I. (Author) |
| Date: | 12 June 2007 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/49711 |
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