MANTLE PLUMES AND ENTRAINMENT - ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE

被引:857
作者
HART, SR
HAURI, EH
OSCHMANN, LA
WHITEHEAD, JA
机构
[1] Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
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D O I
10.1126/science.256.5056.517
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Many oceanic island basalts show sublinear subparallel arrays in Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic space. The depleted upper mantle is rarely a mixing end-member of these arrays, as would be expected if mantle plumes originated at a 670-kilometer boundary layer and entrained upper mantle during ascent. Instead, the arrays are fan-shaped and appear to converge on a volume in isotopic space characterized by low Sr-87/Sr-86 and high Nd-143/Nd-144, Pb-206/Pb-204, and He-3/He-4 ratios. This new isotopic component may be the lower mantle, entrained into plumes originating from the core-mantle boundary layer.
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