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DOI | 10.1130/GES00741.1 |
Distinct mantle sources for Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism beneath the modern Sierra Nevada and adjacent Great Basin, northern California and western Nevada, USA | |
Cousens, Brian1,2; Henry, Christopher D.3; Gupta, Vishal4 | |
通讯作者 | Cousens, Brian |
来源期刊 | GEOSPHERE |
ISSN | 1553-040X |
出版年 | 2012 |
卷号 | 8期号:3页码:562-580 |
英文摘要 | Latest Pliocene to Quaternary, mildly alkaline, mafic to intermediate volcanic activity extends in a swath from the Lake Tahoe region in the eastern Sierra Nevada across the western Great Basin to the Battle Mountain area, Nevada. From west to east, the volcanic centers exhibit a dramatic gradient in chemical and isotopic composition. Centers situated in or adjacent to the Sierra Nevada have incompatible element and isotopic compositions consistent with an old, subduction-modified lithospheric mantle source (Sr-87/Sr-86 > 0.7045; Nd-143/Nd-144 < 0.5127; delta O-18 > +6.5 parts per thousand). Mafic volcanic centers east of the Sierra Nevada, in the Carson Sink and in the Buffalo Valley region, have an intraplate incompatible element and isotopic signature (Sr-87/Sr-86 < 0.7045; 143Nd/144Nd > 0.5127; delta O-18 < +6.5 parts per thousand) consistent with an asthenospheric mantle source. Earlier 20-3 Ma arc volcanism in the Sierra Nevada also tapped the old lithospheric mantle source along with the mantle wedge, indicating that the lithospheric mantle source existed well prior to the onset of Tertiary arc volcanism and probably prior to Mesozoic igneous activity of the Sierra Nevada. Thus, the lithospheric mantle beneath the Sierra Nevada has remained a geochemically consistent, fertile, fusible source for at least the past 20 m.y. Old lithospheric mantle likely still exists east of the Sierra Nevada, but lithospheric thinning and/or exhaustion of fusible components inhibit its melting, such that during the Quaternary, melting could only occur in the asthenosphere. |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Canada ; USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000308940300003 |
WOS关键词 | ANCESTRAL-CASCADES ARC ; SLAB-DERIVED FLUIDS ; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE ; UNITED-STATES ; ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE ; TRACE-ELEMENT ; AMERICAN LITHOSPHERE ; BASALTIC VOLCANISM ; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE ; MOJAVE DESERT |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/172622 |
作者单位 | 1.Carleton Univ, Ottawa Carleton Geosci Ctr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada; 2.Carleton Univ, Isotope Geol & Geochronol Res Facil, Dept Earth Sci, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada; 3.Univ Nevada, Nevada Bur Mines & Geol, Reno, NV 89557 USA; 4.Carleton Univ, Dept Integrated Studies, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cousens, Brian,Henry, Christopher D.,Gupta, Vishal. Distinct mantle sources for Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism beneath the modern Sierra Nevada and adjacent Great Basin, northern California and western Nevada, USA[J],2012,8(3):562-580. |
APA | Cousens, Brian,Henry, Christopher D.,&Gupta, Vishal.(2012).Distinct mantle sources for Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism beneath the modern Sierra Nevada and adjacent Great Basin, northern California and western Nevada, USA.GEOSPHERE,8(3),562-580. |
MLA | Cousens, Brian,et al."Distinct mantle sources for Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism beneath the modern Sierra Nevada and adjacent Great Basin, northern California and western Nevada, USA".GEOSPHERE 8.3(2012):562-580. |
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