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40Ar/39Ar ages and Sr–Nd–Pb–Os geochemistry of CAMP tholeiites from Western Maranhão basin (NE Brazil)
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Geology. (NordSIMS)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9018-6862
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2011 (English)In: Lithos, ISSN 0024-4937, E-ISSN 1872-6143, Vol. 122, no 3, p. 137-151Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), emplaced at the Triassic–Jurassic (T–J) boundary (~200Ma), is among the largest igneous provinces on Earth. The Maranhão basin in NE Brazil is located around 700km inland and 2000km from the site of the earliest Pangea disruption. The CAMP tholeiites occur only in the western part of the basin and have been described as low and high-Ti. Here we document the occurrence of two sub-groups among the high-Ti tholeiites in the Western Maranhão basin. The major and trace elements and the Sr–Nd–Pb isotopic ratios define three chemical groups corresponding to the low-Ti (TiO2<1.3wt.%), high-Ti (TiO2~2.0wt.%) and evolved high-Ti (TiO2>3wt.%) western Maranhão basin tholeiites (WMBT). The new 40Ar/39Ar plateau ages obtained on plagioclase separates for high-Ti (199.7±2.4Ma) and evolved high-Ti WMBT (197.2±0.5Ma and 198.2±0.6Ma) are indistinguishable and identical to those of previously analyzed low-Ti WMBT (198.5±0.8Ma) and to the mean 40Ar/39Ar age of the CAMP (199±2.4Ma). We also present the first Re–Os isotopic data for CAMP basalts. The low and high-Ti samples display mantle-like initial (187Os/188Os)i ranging from 0.1267 to 0.1299, while the evolved high-Ti samples are more radiogenic ((187Os/188Os)i up to 0.184) We propose that the high-Ti WMBT were derived from the sub-lithospheric asthenosphere, and contaminated during ascent by interaction with the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM). The evolved high-Ti WMBT were derived from the same asthenospheric source but experienced crustal contamination. The chemical characteristics of the low-Ti group can be explained by partial melting of the most fertile portions of the SCLM metasomatized during paleo-subduction. Alternatively, the low-Ti WMBT could be derived from the sub-lithospheric asthenosphere but the resulting melts may have undergone contamination by the SCLM. The occurrences of high-Ti basalts are apparently not restricted to the area of initial continental disruption which may bring into question previous interpretations such as those relating high-Ti CAMP magmatism to the initiation of Atlantic ridge spreading or as the expression of a deep mantle plume. We propose that the CAMP magmatism in the Maranhão basin may be attributed to local hotter mantle conditions due to the combined effects of edge-driven convection and large-scale mantle warming under the Pangea supercontinent. The involvement of a mantle-plume with asthenosphere-like isotopic characteristics cannot be ruled out either as one of the main source components of the WMBT or as a heat supplier.

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2011. Vol. 122, no 3, p. 137-151
Keywords [en]
CAMP, Osmium isotopes, SCLM
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Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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The changing Earth
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-3556OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-3556DiVA, id: diva2:1375229
Available from: 2019-12-04 Created: 2019-12-04 Last updated: 2023-12-18Bibliographically approved

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