Early Tertiary basalts from the Labrador Sea floor and Davis Strait region

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 956-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Clarke ◽  
B. I. Cameron ◽  
G. K. Muecke ◽  
J. L. Bates
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Labrador Sea ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Nd Isotope ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Depleted Mantle ◽  
Davis Strait ◽  
Isotope Systematics ◽  
Seawater Exchange

Fine- to medium-grained, phyric and aphyric basalt samples from ODP Leg 105, site 647A, in the Labrador Sea show little evidence of alteration. Chemically, these rocks are low-potassium (0.01–0.09 wt.% K2O), olivine- to quartz-normative tholeiites that compare closely with the very depleted terrestrial Paleocene volcanic rocks in the Davis Strait region of Baffin Island and West Greenland. However, differences exist in the Sr–Nd isotope systematics of the two suites; the Labrador Sea samples have ε Nd values (+9.3) indicative of a more depleted source, and are higher in 87Sr/86Sr (0.7040), relative to the Davis Strait basalts (ε Nd +2.54 to +8.97; mean 87Sr/86Sr 0.7034). The higher 87Sr/86Sr in the Labrador Sea samples may reflect seawater exchange despite no petrographic evidence for significant alteration. The Labrador Sea and early Davis Strait basalts may have been derived from a similar depleted mantle source composition; however, the later Davis Strait magmas were generated from a different mantle. None of the Baffin Island, West Greenland, or Labrador Sea samples show unequivocal geochemical evidence for contamination with continental crust.

Isotope evidence for the origin of Andean granites

1988 ◽  
Vol 79 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 123-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Pankhurst ◽  
M. J. Hole ◽  
M. Brook
Keyword(s):  
Antarctic Peninsula ◽  
Nd Isotope ◽  
Depleted Mantle ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mantle Sources ◽  
Subducted Oceanic Crust ◽  
Isotope Evidence ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Isotope Systematics ◽  
Material Input

ABSTRACTThe genesis of subduction-related magmas in the Andean region of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula is considered in relation to the Palaeozoic to Cenozoic granitoids belts which are thought to parallel palaeo-coastlines. Their Sr-Nd isotope systematics show a wide range of initial compositions (87Sr/86Sr0 0·7038 to >0·710; εNd, +4 to –10) requiring material input from both depleted mantle and continental crust. In local transects there are consistent trends with time of emplacement, from enriched (crustal) to depleted (mantle) sources, regardless of the sense of migration of magmatism (towards or away from the continent). These trends represent mixing between mantle-derived material and anatectic melts of the lower crust: in each case the crustal end-member reflects the age and isotopic composition of the local deep crustal basement (Precambrian in the easternmost Andes, Palaeozoic in the W and in the Antarctic Peninsula). The depleted end-member could be derived by melting within the subducted oceanic crust, the overlying mantle or previously crystallised mafic underplating. One of the most important factors controlling the mixing process is the angle of subduction, resulting in magma generation under variable tectonic conditions.

scholarly journals Sr-Nd Isotope Systematics of Xenoliths in Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks from SW Japan.

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroo KAGAMI ◽  
Shigeru IIZUMI ◽  
Masatoshi IWATA ◽  
Terukazu NUREKI
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Nd Isotope ◽  
Isotope Systematics ◽  
Sw Japan

Tertiary basalts of western Davis Strait: bedrock core samples and geophysical data

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 773-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. MacLean ◽  
R. K. H. Falconer ◽  
D. B. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Anomaly ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Geophysical Data ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Main Area ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Core Samples ◽  
Davis Strait ◽  
Island Shelf

Short bedrock cores of basalt were recovered at two localities on the Baffin Island shelf, 33 and 89 km southeast of Cape Dyer. The volcanic rocks underlying these sites have a surface extent of some 8000 km2 as outlined by seismic reflection and magnetic anomaly profiles. Similar rocks are inferred to occur at two smaller offshore areas south of the main area. The offshore occurrences are both more continuous and much larger than the onshore basalt areas of eastern Baffin Island.The core samples appear to have been cut from single flows consisting of fine-grained microporphyritic basalts with olivine as the principal phenocryst phase. Although having distinct differences from one another in terms of texture and degree of alteration, the samples from the three drill stations bear similarities to the Baffin Island basalts that suggest a close petrogenetic relationship may exist between the onshore and offshore basalts. However, in contrast to the subaqueously erupted volcanic breccias of onshore Baffin Island and West Greenland the offshore samples contain little evidence of glass, suggesting the possibility that the latter may have been erupted in a subaerial environment.

Marginal Basins of the Labrador Sea and the Davis Strait Hot Spot

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Hyndman
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spot ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Crustal Thickness ◽  
Labrador Sea ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
Davis Strait ◽  
Basement Depth ◽  
The Difference

There are deep marginal sedimentary basins in the Labrador Sea extending to the region of Davis Strait. In contrast, the central part of the Sea shoals toward Davis Strait. The difference is explained by the central part of the Sea being formed while the Davis Strait hot spot was active, producing increased vulcanism and crustal thickness. The sea floor along the margins was produced before the hot spot became active about 60 m.y. ago, so has normal crustal thickness and thus normal basement depth.

scholarly journals Early Tertiary, low-potassium tholeiites from exploration wells on the West Greenland shelf

1987 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
N Hald ◽  
J.G Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Baffin Island ◽  
Quaternary Sediments ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Baffin Bay ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Davis Strait ◽  
Low Potassium

Data on the Tertiary basalts in the Davis Strait region are reported from two exploration wells drilled by Arco and Mobil on the West Greenland shelf. Hellefisk 1 (67°53 'N, 56°44'W), situated only 60 km east of the mid-line in Davis Strait, penetrated the upper 690 m of a subaeriallava sequence continuous with the onshore volcanics of Disko and situated beneath 2.3 km of Paleocene to Quaternary sediments. The lavas are feldspar microporphyritic tholeiites and mostly unmetamorphosed despite the presence of laumontite and prehnite in the vesicular top zones. Nukik 2 (65°38'N, 54°46'W) penetrated 150 m of hyaloclastites and tholeiitic olivine dolerite sheets, presumably sills, some 200 km further to the south. These vo1canics are also deeply buried and are of unknown extension. The drilled rocks, except for the much altered hyaloclastites in the Nukik 2 well, have low contents of Ti02 (0.99-2.03%), K2O (0.09-0.18%) and P2O5 (0.08-0.21%), La/Sm ratios less than one and 87Sr/86Sr ratios of 0.7032 to 0.7044. Chemically they are related to the MORB-like picrites of Baffin Island rather than the less depleted tholeiites of West Greenland. In both areas the MORB affinity may be related to eruptions through a strongly attenuated lithosphere associated with the opening of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait.

scholarly journals Constraints on source-forming processes of West Greenland kimberlites inferred from Hf–Nd isotope systematics

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (11) ◽  
pp. 2820-2836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Gaffney ◽  
Janne Blichert-Toft ◽  
Bruce K. Nelson ◽  
Martin Bizzarro ◽  
Minik Rosing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nd Isotope ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Isotope Systematics

Depleted and ultradepleted basalt and picrite in the Davis Strait: Paleocene volcanism associated with a transform continental margin

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 (12) ◽  
pp. 1983-2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Melchior Larsen ◽  
Marie-Claude Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Spinel Peridotite ◽  
Baffin Island ◽  
Nd Isotopes ◽  
Enriched Mantle ◽  
Spreading Ridges ◽  
Magmatic Underplating ◽  
Davis Strait ◽  
Melting Regime ◽  
Transform Zone

AbstractVolcanic rocks from the Davis Strait were studied to elucidate the tectonomagmatic processes during rifting and the start of seafloor spreading, and the formation of the Ungava transform zone between Canada and Greenland. The rocks are from the wells Hekja O-71, Gjoa G-37, Nukik-2 and Hellefisk-1, and from dredges on the northern Davis Strait High. Ages range from Danian to Thanetian (dinocyst palynozones P2 to P5, 62.5–57.2 Ma). The rocks are predominantly basaltic, but include picrites on the Davis Strait High. Calculated mantle potential temperatures for the Davis Strait High are c. 1500°C, suggesting the volume of magma generated was large; this is consistent with geophysical evidence for magmatic underplating in the region. The rare earth element patterns indicate residual mantle lithologies of spinel peridotite and, together with Sr–Nd isotopes, indicate melting beneath regionally extensive, depleted asthenosphere beneath a lithosphere of thickness similar to, or thinner than, beneath Baffin Island and distinctly thinner than beneath West Greenland. Some sites include basalts with more enriched compositions. Depleted and enriched basalts in the Hellefisk well show contemporaneous melting of depleted and enriched mantle components in the asthenosphere. The Hekja and Davis Strait High basalts and picrites have unique, ultradepleted compositions with (La/Sm)N < 0.5, (Tb/Lu)N < 1 and Nb/Zr = 0.013–0.027. We interpret these compositions as a product of the melting regime within the Ungava transform zone, where the melting column would be steep-sided in cross-section and not triangular as expected at normal spreading ridges. Magmatism along the transform stopped when the tectonic regime changed from transtension to transpression during earliest Eocene time.

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