Plume

• Main Authors: Lower In The Icel, Thomas Find Kokfelt, Kaj Hoernle, Folkmar Hauff, Jens Fiebigy, Reinhard Werner
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.631.1633; http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/9/1705.full.pdf

We present the results of a comprehensive major element, trace element and Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotopic study of post-glacial volcanic rocks from the Neovolcanic zones on Iceland. The rocks studied range in composition from picrites and tholeiites, which dominate in the main rift systems, to transitional and alkalic basalts confined to the off-rift and propagating rift systems. There are good correlations of rock types with geochemical enrichment parameters, such as La/Sm and La/Yb ratios, and with long-term radiogenic tracers, such as Sr–Nd–Pb isotope ratios, indicating a long-lived enrichment/ depletion history of the source region. 87Sr/86Sr vs 143Nd/144Nd defines a negative array. Pb isotopes define well-correlated positive arrays on both 206Pb/204Pb vs 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb diagrams, indicating mixing of at least two major components: an enriched component represented by the alkali basalts and a depleted component represented by the picrites. In combined Sr–Nd–Pb