Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland
The extent of compositional and lithological heterogeneity in Earth’s convecting mantle, caused by the recycling of oceanic and continental lithosphere, has long been a subject of interest to geochemists and geophysicists. A fundamental outstanding question that is still widely debated is: how is re...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/2394 2023-05-15T16:43:01+02:00 Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland Rasmussen, Maja Bar Sæmundur Ari Halldórsson Jarðvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Earth Sciences (UI) Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland 2021-01 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2394 en eng University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences Maja Bar Rasmussen, 2021, Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland, PhD dissertation, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, 127 pp. 978-9935-9555-1-7 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2394 info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess Jarðeðlisfræði Jarðmöttull Storkuberg Mantle geochemistry Olivine Iceland Doktorsritgerðir info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis 2021 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/2394 2022-11-18T06:52:06Z The extent of compositional and lithological heterogeneity in Earth’s convecting mantle, caused by the recycling of oceanic and continental lithosphere, has long been a subject of interest to geochemists and geophysicists. A fundamental outstanding question that is still widely debated is: how is recycling of crustal material preserved in ocean island basalts? Olivine is usually the first mineral to crystallise during the ascent of mantle-derived melts and is stable over a large range in pressure, temperature, and melt composition. Because of this, the chemistry of olivine is often used as a proxy for primitive melt compositions prior to secondary modifications occurring in the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust. Iceland is the largest subaerial section of the global mid-ocean-ridge system and reflects the current location of the Iceland mantle plume. Previous work has shown that the mantle beneath Iceland is chemically heterogenous, and this has been attributed in part to the presence of recycled crust entrained within the upwelling plume. The recognition of a chemically heterogenous plume, together with the widespread occurrence of primitive basalts, makes Iceland an ideal location to identify the properties of recycled crust in a mantle plume from the chemical composition of high-forsterite olivine. This thesis is in three parts where I present a detailed study of high-forsterite olivine from the active rift and flank zones as well as older crust in Iceland. I apply a combination of in-situ and bulk digestion analytical techniques to produce an internally-consistent, high-precision dataset for distinguishing mantle-derived variability from the effect of secondary processes, such as fractional crystallisation and assimilation. In the first part of the thesis, I use minor and trace elements in olivine and previously published He isotopes to show, that the geochemical heterogeneity beneath Iceland is mainly caused by the Iceland plume entraining pyroxene-rich mantle components, formed from recycled ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Iceland Ocean Island Opin vísindi (Iceland) |
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The extent of compositional and lithological heterogeneity in Earth’s convecting mantle, caused by the recycling of oceanic and continental lithosphere, has long been a subject of interest to geochemists and geophysicists. A fundamental outstanding question that is still widely debated is: how is recycling of crustal material preserved in ocean island basalts? Olivine is usually the first mineral to crystallise during the ascent of mantle-derived melts and is stable over a large range in pressure, temperature, and melt composition. Because of this, the chemistry of olivine is often used as a proxy for primitive melt compositions prior to secondary modifications occurring in the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust. Iceland is the largest subaerial section of the global mid-ocean-ridge system and reflects the current location of the Iceland mantle plume. Previous work has shown that the mantle beneath Iceland is chemically heterogenous, and this has been attributed in part to the presence of recycled crust entrained within the upwelling plume. The recognition of a chemically heterogenous plume, together with the widespread occurrence of primitive basalts, makes Iceland an ideal location to identify the properties of recycled crust in a mantle plume from the chemical composition of high-forsterite olivine. This thesis is in three parts where I present a detailed study of high-forsterite olivine from the active rift and flank zones as well as older crust in Iceland. I apply a combination of in-situ and bulk digestion analytical techniques to produce an internally-consistent, high-precision dataset for distinguishing mantle-derived variability from the effect of secondary processes, such as fractional crystallisation and assimilation. In the first part of the thesis, I use minor and trace elements in olivine and previously published He isotopes to show, that the geochemical heterogeneity beneath Iceland is mainly caused by the Iceland plume entraining pyroxene-rich mantle components, formed from recycled ... |
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Sæmundur Ari Halldórsson Jarðvísindadeild (HÍ) Faculty of Earth Sciences (UI) Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ) School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI) Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
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Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland |
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Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland |
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Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland |
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Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland |
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Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland |
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magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath iceland |
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University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Earth Sciences |
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Maja Bar Rasmussen, 2021, Magmatic olivine as a tool to investigate geochemical mantle heterogeneities beneath Iceland, PhD dissertation, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, 127 pp. 978-9935-9555-1-7 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2394 |
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