In:
Earth and planetary science letters, Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, 1966, 289(2010), 3/4, Seite 323-333, 1385-013X
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volume:289
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year:2010
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number:3/4
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pages:323-333
Description / Table of Contents:
We report here the first detailed 2D tomographic image of the crust and upper mantle structure of a Cretaceous seamount that formed during the interaction of the Pacific plate and the Louisville hotspot. Results show that at not, vert, similar ~1.5 km beneath the seamount summit, the core of the volcanic edifice appears to be dominantly intrusive, with velocities faster than 6.5 km/s. The edifice overlies both high lower crustal (〉 7.2-7.6 km/s) and upper mantle (〉 8.3 km/s) velocities, suggesting that ultramafic rocks have been intruded as sills rather than underplated beneath the crust. The results suggest that the ratio between the volume of intra-crustal magmatic intrusion and extrusive volcanism is as high as not, vert, similar ~4.5. In addition, the inversion of Moho reflections shows that the Pacific oceanic crust has been flexed downward by up to not, vert, similar ~2.5 km beneath the seamount. The flexure can be explained by an elastic plate model in which the seamount emplaced upon oceanic lithosphere that was not, vert, similar ~10 Myr at the time of loading. Intra-crustal magmatic intrusion may be a feature of hotspot volcanism at young, hot, oceanic lithosphere, whereas, magmatic underplating below a pre-existing Moho may be more likely to occur where a hotspot interacts with oceanic lithosphere that is several tens of millions of years old.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
graph. Darst
ISSN:
1385-013X
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.020
Language:
English
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