其他摘要 | The Manus Basin, located in the eastern part of the Bismarck Sea, has been successively affected by the subduction of the Pacific−Caroline Plate and the Solomon Sea Plate and is one of the fastest spreading back−arc basins in the world. The Eastern Manus Basin is the fastest expanding part of the Manus Basin, which is the site of recent volcanism and hydrothermal activity, developing a complete sequence of rocks ranging from basalt to rhyolite, making it an ideal region to analyze the volcanic magma system of the fast−spreading back−arc basin. In this dissertation, through analyzing the petrography and geochemical characteristics of the whole rocks (major and trace elements, Sr−Nd−Pb−Hf isotopes) and minerals (in situ geochemistry) of basaltic andesite, andesite, and dacite from the Eastern Manus Basin, we discussed the modification of its mantle source region by subduction components and the genesis of various volcanic rocks, as well as analyzed the physicochemical characteristics of the magma reservoirs in the magma plumbing system of this region as well as the magma processes including magma mixing. The major findings include:
(1) Analysis Sr−Nd−Pb isotopes indicates that the Manus Basin volcanic rocks originated from the Indian MORB−type mantle, whereas the Eastern Manus Basin volcanic rocks exhibit high Ba/La, Th/Yb, Ba/Th, and Cl/F ratios, and low Hf/Nd ratios due to the influence of slab melts and slab−derived fluids on its source region.176Hf/ 177Hf−143Nd/144Nd illustration shows that the slab melt component of the Eastern Manus Basin magma source region is derived from the Pacific Plate and consists of a mixture of altered oceanic crust melt and subducted sediment melt in a ratio of ~72:28, which accounts for ~5% of the magma source region, and that the slab−derived fluid component of its source region is derived from the Solomon Sea Plate, which consists of mostly sediment−derived fluids, with a very small amount of altered oceanic crustal derived fluids, the ratio of the two is about 95:5, and their inputs to the magma source region is less than 1%. As a result of subduction inputs, at least 96−98% of Ba, 75−90% of Th, and 14−21% of Cl in the mantle source region of the Eastern Manus Basin are contributed by subduction components, as well as result in a Sr−Nd−Pb isotopic composition that deviates from the compositional range of the Indian MORB mantle.
(2) The basaltic andesite of the Eastern Manus Basin underwent high undercooling and intense degassing processes, which formed a large number of skeletal plagioclase as well as sector−zoned and dendritic clinopyroxene; whereas the andesite and the dacite underwent the magma recharging and mixing during their formation, and both developed three mineral assemblages. Among them, the mineral assemblages in andesite are from basaltic melt, rhyolitic melt, and mixed melt (andesitic), respectively, and the mixed melt is calculated to be formed by the mixing of the first two in the ratio of 2:8; the mineral assemblages in dacite are from andesitic melt, rhyolitic melt and mixed melt (dacitic), respectively, and the textural and chemical zoning of phenocrysts indicate that the dacitic melt experienced several injections of andesitic melt, and that it also experienced the capture of the wall rocks. Experimental data (abundances of major elements and F, Cl, SO3 components) indicate that all the magmatic apatites in the dacite crystallized from volatile−undersaturated melts, so their chemical compositions can be used as indicators of dacitic magma compositions. The calculated minimum S concentration of the dacitic melt at that moment ranges from 2−65 ppm or 8−11 ppm. Due to the effect of magnetite fractional crystallization, the dacitic melt has a low oxygen fugacity (ΔFMQ = −0.2 ± 0.9). The calculated high Cl content in the dacite indicates that it may also have been slightly influenced by shallow assimilation of Cl−rich seawater−derived components.
(3) The performance of different mineral−based thermobarometers has been assessed by constructing the experimental datasets applicable to this study, and the best−performing thermobarometers are all from Putirka(2008). For clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene, the iteration of Enq. 32b with Enq. 33 and Enq. 28b with Enq. 29a are chosen to calculate the crystallization temperatures and pressures, respectively. For plagioclase, Enq. 24a is chosen for calculating the crystallization temperatures. Pre−eruption storage temperatures for basaltic andesitic, andesitic, and dacitic magmas are 1090±13 °C, 1032±9 °C, and 938±10 °C, respectively, with storage pressures not well constrained at 4.3±1.4 kbar, 2.8±1.3 kbar, and 2.5±1.3 kbar, respectively. The complex magma plumbing system beneath the Eastern Manus Basin provides the material as well as heat sources for the volcanism and hydrothermal activity in this region.
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