The age and origin of the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces, Ross Sea, Antarctica
The Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces are two isolated and remote volcanic occurrences located along the rifted margin of Western Antarctica in the Ross Sea. They include oceanic plateaus, seamounts, and volcanic islands. Although volcanic activity has been documented through remote sensing, ther...
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ftuppsalauniv:oai:DiVA.org:uu-502647 2024-02-11T09:56:50+01:00 The age and origin of the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces, Ross Sea, Antarctica Merle, Renaud E. Jiang, Qiang Jourdan, Fred Olierook, Hugo 2022 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-502647 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2022.125904 eng eng Uppsala universitet, Naturresurser och hållbar utveckling Curtin Univ, Western Australian Argon Isotope Facil, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, TIGeR, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, Sch Earth & Planetary Sci, Perth, WA 6845, Australia. Curtin Univ, Western Australian Argon Isotope Facil, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, TIGeR, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, Sch Earth & Planetary Sci, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, John de Laeter Ctr, Perth, WA 6845, Australia. Curtin Univ, Sch Earth & Planetary Sci, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, John de Laeter Ctr, Perth, WA 6845, Australia.;Curtin Univ, Timesc Mineral Syst Grp, Perth, WA 6845, Australia. ELSEVIER GMBH Chemie der Erde, 0009-2819, 2022, 82:4, orcid:0000-0001-9018-6862 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-502647 doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2022.125904 ISI:000981696700003 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Recent volcanism Ar-40/Ar-39 dating Metasomatised lithospheric mantle Geology Geologi Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2022 ftuppsalauniv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2022.125904 2024-01-17T23:32:08Z The Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces are two isolated and remote volcanic occurrences located along the rifted margin of Western Antarctica in the Ross Sea. They include oceanic plateaus, seamounts, and volcanic islands. Although volcanic activity has been documented through remote sensing, there is no geochronological data based on radio-isotope methods constraining the duration of the volcanic activity in this region. As a consequence, hypotheses, based on the interpretation of chemical characteristics of the lavas, that suggested the volcanism to be either the result a deep mantle plume or a large-scale shallow melting anomaly have not yet been tested decisively. In order to tackle this issue, we have now dated lavas dredged from seamounts from both Balleny and Scott provinces using the Ar-40/Ar-39 technique. Our new age dates suggest that the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces were active since at least 2.8 Ma and 2.4 Ma respectively. This suggests that these volcanic provinces were active simultaneously to the magmatism of the McMurdo volcanic group in the Western Antarctica Rift System that comprises Mount Erebus and Mount Melbourne stratovolcanoes. Our new dates suggest that there is no obvious age trend across the Balleny and Scott provinces. Combined with plate reconstructions since the end of Mesozoic, these data suggest that the Scott province does not coincide with any potential hot-spot track, thus negating a deep mantle plume origin for this volcanism. The case of the Balleny province is more ambiguous. The hypothesis of this province representing the end of the Tasman seamounts chain formed by a hot-spot track with decreasing-age trend is not confirmed by the new geochronological data, since available dates for the region are rather scarce and unreliable for the Tasman seamounts. Therefore, we suggest that the Balleny and Scott provinces originated from shallow mantle melting processes, a hypothesis that seems to be consistent with our re-interpretation of the Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data of the ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Ross Sea Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA) Mount Erebus ENVELOPE(167.167,167.167,-77.533,-77.533) Mount Melbourne ENVELOPE(164.700,164.700,-74.350,-74.350) Ross Sea Geochemistry 82 4 125904 |
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The Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces are two isolated and remote volcanic occurrences located along the rifted margin of Western Antarctica in the Ross Sea. They include oceanic plateaus, seamounts, and volcanic islands. Although volcanic activity has been documented through remote sensing, there is no geochronological data based on radio-isotope methods constraining the duration of the volcanic activity in this region. As a consequence, hypotheses, based on the interpretation of chemical characteristics of the lavas, that suggested the volcanism to be either the result a deep mantle plume or a large-scale shallow melting anomaly have not yet been tested decisively. In order to tackle this issue, we have now dated lavas dredged from seamounts from both Balleny and Scott provinces using the Ar-40/Ar-39 technique. Our new age dates suggest that the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces were active since at least 2.8 Ma and 2.4 Ma respectively. This suggests that these volcanic provinces were active simultaneously to the magmatism of the McMurdo volcanic group in the Western Antarctica Rift System that comprises Mount Erebus and Mount Melbourne stratovolcanoes. Our new dates suggest that there is no obvious age trend across the Balleny and Scott provinces. Combined with plate reconstructions since the end of Mesozoic, these data suggest that the Scott province does not coincide with any potential hot-spot track, thus negating a deep mantle plume origin for this volcanism. The case of the Balleny province is more ambiguous. The hypothesis of this province representing the end of the Tasman seamounts chain formed by a hot-spot track with decreasing-age trend is not confirmed by the new geochronological data, since available dates for the region are rather scarce and unreliable for the Tasman seamounts. Therefore, we suggest that the Balleny and Scott provinces originated from shallow mantle melting processes, a hypothesis that seems to be consistent with our re-interpretation of the Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data of the ... |
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The age and origin of the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces, Ross Sea, Antarctica |
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The age and origin of the Balleny and Scott volcanic provinces, Ross Sea, Antarctica |
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