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Recycled ancient ghost carbonate in the Pitcairn mantle plume.


ABSTRACT: The extreme Sr, Nd, Hf, and Pb isotopic compositions found in Pitcairn Island basalts have been labeled enriched mantle 1 (EM1), characterizing them as one of the isotopic mantle end members. The EM1 origin has been vigorously debated for over 25 years, with interpretations ranging from delaminated subcontinental lithosphere, to recycled lower continental crust, to recycled oceanic crust carrying ancient pelagic sediments, all of which may potentially generate the requisite radiogenic isotopic composition. Here we find that ?26Mg ratios in Pitcairn EM1 basalts are significantly lower than in normal mantle and are the lowest values so far recorded in oceanic basalts. A global survey of Mg isotopic compositions of potentially recycled components shows that marine carbonates constitute the most common and typical reservoir invariably characterized by extremely low ?26Mg values. We therefore infer that the subnormal ?26Mg of the Pitcairn EM1 component originates from subducted marine carbonates. This, combined with previously published evidence showing exceptionally unradiogenic Pb as well as sulfur isotopes affected by mass-independent fractionation, suggests that the Pitcairn EM1 component is most likely derived from late Archean subducted carbonate-bearing sediments. However, the low Ca/Al ratios of Pitcairn lavas are inconsistent with experimental evidence showing high Ca/Al ratios in melts derived from carbonate-bearing mantle sources. We suggest that carbonate-silicate reactions in the late Archean subducted sediments exhausted the carbonates, but the isotopically light magnesium of the carbonate was incorporated in the silicates, which then entered the lower mantle and ultimately became the Pitcairn plume source.

SUBMITTER: Wang XJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126754 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recycled ancient ghost carbonate in the Pitcairn mantle plume.

Wang Xiao-Jun XJ   Chen Li-Hui LH   Hofmann Albrecht W AW   Hanyu Takeshi T   Kawabata Hiroshi H   Zhong Yuan Y   Xie Lie-Wen LW   Shi Jin-Hua JH   Miyazaki Takashi T   Hirahara Yuka Y   Takahashi Toshiro T   Senda Ryoko R   Chang Qing Q   Vaglarov Bogdan S BS   Kimura Jun-Ichi JI  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180813 35


The extreme Sr, Nd, Hf, and Pb isotopic compositions found in Pitcairn Island basalts have been labeled enriched mantle 1 (EM1), characterizing them as one of the isotopic mantle end members. The EM1 origin has been vigorously debated for over 25 years, with interpretations ranging from delaminated subcontinental lithosphere, to recycled lower continental crust, to recycled oceanic crust carrying ancient pelagic sediments, all of which may potentially generate the requisite radiogenic isotopic c  ...[more]

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