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| Revillon, Sidonie; Guillou, Herve; Maury, Rene C.; Chauvel, Catherine; Aslanian, Daniel; Pelleter, Ewan; Scao, Vincent; Loubrieu, Benoit; Patriat, Martin. |
| The Marquesas Island chain in Polynesia is quite unusual because the alignment of the islands on the Pacific oceanic plate (N40°W) does not follow the plate motion in the region (N65°W). The exact location of the active hotspot is unknown but has been predicted to underlie the Marquesas Fracture Zone Ridge. Nevertheless, no concrete evidence exists. Here, we document the occurrence on this ridge of fresh tephrites dated at ~ 92 ka by the 40Ar-39Ar method. The lavas dredged on a small seamount have trace element contents and Sr, Nd, Pb isotopic compositions typical of the southwest Marquesas Islands, the Fatu Hiva group. This discovery demonstrates that the Marquesas plume is still active and it puts new constraints on its present location. It also supports... |
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Palavras-chave: Submarine volcanism; Ar-40-Ar-39 ages; Geochemistry; Plume; Marquesas; French Polynesia. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00407/51832/52431.pdf |
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| Daoud, Mohamed A.; Le Gall, Bernard; Maury, Rene; Rolet, Joel; Huchon, Philippe; Guillou, Herve. |
| The Tadjoura rift forms the westernmost edge of the westerly propagating Sheba ridge, between Arabia and Somalia, as it enters into the Afar depression. From structural and remote sensing data sets, the Tadjoura rift is interpreted as an asymmetrical south facing half-graben, about 40 km wide, dominated by a large boundary fault zone to the north. It is partially filled up by the 1-3 Myr old Gulf Basalts which onlapped the older Somali Basalts along its shallower southern flexural margin. The major and trace element analysis of 78 young onshore lavas allows us to distinguish and map four distinct basaltic types, namely the Gulf, Somali, Goumarre, and Hayyabley Basalts. These results, together with radiometric age data, lead us to propose a revised... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00200/31103/29502.pdf |
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| Briais, Anne; Ondreas, Helene; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Dosso, Laure; Hamelin, Cedric; Guillou, Herve. |
| Non-hot spot, intraplate volcanism is a common feature near the East Pacific Rise or Pacific-Antarctic ridge. Volcanic ridges and seamount chains, tens to hundreds of kilometers long, are asymmetrically distributed about the ridge axis, with most volcanic features occurring on the Pacific plate. Their origins remain controversial. We have analyzed off-axis volcanic ridges near the Pacific-Antarctic ridge from bathymetry, backscatter, gravity, and geochemistry data of the Pacantarctic 2 cruise. K/Ar dating of samples dredged on these structures reveals a contrast of up to 3 Ma between the volcanoes and the underlying crust. The volcanic activity, as suggested by the strong backscatter in sonar images, appears to be limited to areas of seafloor younger than... |
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Palavras-chave: Mid ocean ridges; Off axis volcanism; Mantle convection; Plate kinematics; Transform fault. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/11106/7968.pdf |
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| Van Vliet-lanoe, Brigitte; Schneider, Jean-luc; Gudmundsson, Agust; Guillou, Herve; Nomade, Sebastien; Chazot, Gilles; Liorzou, Celine; Guegan, Solene. |
| Central southern Iceland is one of the main outlets of the Icelandic Ice Sheet where a MIS 5e sedimentary complex, the Ranga Formation, is extensively observed below the last deglaciation terminal moraines. Sedimentary facies demonstrate that the Ranga Formation is mostly tidal, up to 215 m (transgression I) and 168 m (transgression II) in altitude. The first highstand reworks a thick tephra from the Grimsvotn volcano, known in marine cores as 5e low/Bas-IV and positioned at ca. 127 Ka BP, the Eemian thermal optimum. This formation is related to a rapid deglaciation followed by two marine transgressions marked by the development of extended mud flats, which were separated by a complex regression phase, associated with loess deposition, ca. 9 Ka in... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00638/75001/75938.pdf |
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