Portrait of a giant deep-seated magmatic conduit system:The Seiland Igneous Province
The Seiland Igneous Province (SIP), Northern Norway, contains >5000 km(2) of mafic and ultramafic intrusions with minor alkaline, carbonatite and felsic rocks that were intruded into the lower continental crust at a depth of 25 to as much as 35 km. The SIP can be geochemically and temporally corr...
Published in: | Lithos |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/portrait-of-a-giant-deepseated-magmatic-conduit-system(211ed3b3-7f20-43f1-81f6-c5e0851e038a).html https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.11.013 |
Summary: | The Seiland Igneous Province (SIP), Northern Norway, contains >5000 km(2) of mafic and ultramafic intrusions with minor alkaline, carbonatite and felsic rocks that were intruded into the lower continental crust at a depth of 25 to as much as 35 km. The SIP can be geochemically and temporally correlated to numerous dyke swarms throughout Scandinavia at 560-610 Ma, and is linked to magmatic provinces in W-Greenland and NE-America that are collectively known as the Central Iapetus Magmatic Province (CIMP). Revised mapping show that the SIP exposes 85-90% layered tholeiitic- alkaline- and syeno-gabbros, 8-10% peridotitic complexes, 2-5% carbonatite, syenite and diorite that formed within a narrow ( Essentially, the ultramafic complexes in the SIP comprises deep-seated transient magma chambers that facilitated mixing and homogenisation of a rich diversity of fertile asthenospheric melts en route to the upper parts of the continental crust. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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