Depleted mantle wedge and sediment fingerprint in unusual basalts from the Manihiki Plateau, central Pacific Ocean

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Ingle, Stephanie, Mahoney, John J., Sato, Hiroshi, Coffin, Millard F., Kimura, Jun-Ichi, Hirano, Naoto, Nakanishi, Masao
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Danger Islands; Pacific; Plateau Central
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/148707/; https://doi.org/10.1130/G23741A.1

Numerous large igneous provinces formed in the Pacific Ocean during Early Cretaceous time, but their origins and relations are poorly understood. We present new geochronological and geochemical data on rocks from the Manihiki Plateau and compare these results to those for other Cretaceous Pacific pl...