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Multi-Stage Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle in the West Antarctic Rift System---A Mantle Xenolith Study.

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Title/Author:	Multi-Stage Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle in the West Antarctic Rift System---A Mantle Xenolith Study./
Author:	Doherty, Cathleen L.
Description:	1 online resource (367 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11B(E).
Subject:	Geochemistry. -
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ISBN:	9781339915272

Multi-Stage Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle in the West Antarctic Rift System---A Mantle Xenolith Study.
Doherty, Cathleen L.

Multi-Stage Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle in the West Antarctic Rift System---A Mantle Xenolith Study. - 1 online resource (367 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Mantle xenoliths allow us to investigate the geochemical and dynamic evolution of the mantle beneath the western margin of Antarctica and reconstruct a timeline of geologic events that are obscured on the surface. For this study, mantle xenoliths, brought to the surface by recent volcanism, were collected along a transect from the rift shoulder and into the rift basin in the western margin of the West Antarctic Rift System (WARS), thus providing a recent snapshot of the lithospheric mantle after major episodes of rifting.

Electronic reproduction.
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ProQuest,
2018

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ISBN: 9781339915272Subjects--Topical Terms:

648291
Geochemistry.
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520 $a Mantle xenoliths allow us to investigate the geochemical and dynamic evolution of the mantle beneath the western margin of Antarctica and reconstruct a timeline of geologic events that are obscured on the surface. For this study, mantle xenoliths, brought to the surface by recent volcanism, were collected along a transect from the rift shoulder and into the rift basin in the western margin of the West Antarctic Rift System (WARS), thus providing a recent snapshot of the lithospheric mantle after major episodes of rifting.
520 $a The second chapter of my thesis focuses on determining the age and persistence of the mantle within the rift. The rhenium-osmium (Re-Os) isotope system has proven to be an invaluable tracer of the tectonic history of the lithospheric mantle and can constrain the age of melt extraction and subsequent stabilization of the lithospheric mantle. This allowed us to track the age of the lithospheric mantle across this rifted margin. Os isotopes, combined with major element compositions, reveal widespread Paleoproterozoic (1.7--2.4 Ga) stabilization of the lithosphere and subsequent preservation, suggesting the lithosphere has dynamically thinned in response to rifting. Major element data allowed us to place temperature (T) constraints on the mantle and characterize the thermal history in the WARS. This study also revealed the oldest lithosphere ages recorded in Antarctica (3.3 Ga) and is the first to report ages that coincide with adjacent crustal ages, thus confirming the coupled relationship between the lithospheric mantle and continental crust.
520 $a An integral factor controlling the composition of magmas generated at Earth's surface is the composition of the SCLM. Magmas generated at depth must pass through it, and subsequently may take on geochemical signatures of the lithosphere, or may leave behind geochemical imprints of the migrating magma in the SCLM. Trace elements provide a means to investigate both the depletion and re-enrichment history of the SCLM.
520 $a The third chapter of my thesis investigates the metasomatic overprinting of the Paleoproterozoic SCLM. Metasomatism, which is the chemical alteration of a rock by a migrating melt and/or fluid, leaves behind diagnostic signatures of the metasomatizing agent (e.g. subduction related fluids or carbonated melts). This can occur cryptically, where a melt percolates through the rock, changing the composition of the rock, but not the lithology. Modal metasomatism produces new mineral phases that are not typically expected in the rock. In xenoliths, trace elements enable us to decode geochemical signatures, and determine the sources of metasomatism. The WARS lithosphere has experienced varying degrees of re-enrichment, broadly characterized by low high field strength element (HFSE) abundances and rare earth element (REE) enrichments that correspond with carbonatite metasomatism. In addition, the presence of secondary hydrous phases (e.g. amphibole and phlogopite) imparted distinct geochemical signatures, revealing that the SCLM beneath the WARS was modified by reactive porous flow with an evolving metasomatic fluid/melt.
520 $a Widespread Cenozoic rift-related volcanism (<20 Ma) is observed throughout the western margin of the East Antarctic Craton. It has been proposed that the Cenozoic basaltic volcanism in the region of our study site originated from a SCLM source that had been metasomatized during subduction along the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana, and subsequent extension in the WARS during the Late Cretaceous (&sim;90 Ma).
520 $a The fourth chapter of my thesis utilizes strontium (Sr), neodymium (Nd), and hafnium (Hf) isotopes to date depletion and refertilization events in the lithosphere, as well as understand the role of the SCLM in the formation of WARS volcanism. Together with lithologic features (e.g. presence of hydrous phase additions), Sr and Nd isotopic ratios in WARS xenoliths provide a geochemical link to the Cenozoic rift-related magmatism, and supports the SCLM's role in the formation of diffuse alkaline magmatism throughout the region. Lu-Hf isotope model ages add a constraint on the timing of melt depletion, and establish a relationship between depleted and refertilized domains. Sr isotopes constrain a genetic link between the metasomatized Archean lithosphere sampled on the rift shoulder and the highly radiogenic character of the Ferrar flood basalts, and indicate long-term storage of subduction modified mantle domains in the SCLM. The Sm-Nd isotope system is variably overprinted by metasomatism throughout the WARS. The most highly metasomatized location produces a well-correlated isochron that indicates that the SCLM acquired its trace element metasomatic signature about 130 Ma ago, during the late stages of subduction along the paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana.
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