|
|
| Hamelin, Cedric; Bezos, Antoine; Dosso, Laure; Escartin, Javier; Cannat, Mathilde; Mevel, Catherine. |
| The Earth's upper mantle is commonly depicted as a “marble cake” assemblage of a refractory component mingled with varying amounts of geochemically diverse enriched components. This depleted component controls the major element composition of Mid-Oceanic Ridge Basalts (MORBs). It has long been considered a fairly uniform reservoir, depleted by early melting and well homogenized by subsequent convective stirring. We present new Hf, Nd, Pb and Sr isotopes and trace element data for basalts from the center of the Lucky Strike segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). Despite the limited size of our sampling area (1.6 km along-axis by 5 km across), these data show a large range of isotopic compositions (similar to that of the whole MAR). It has recently been... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Oceanic basalts; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Lucky Strike; Mantle heterogeneity; Hf isotopes. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00129/24047/23572.pdf |
| |
