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Microstructural features of a subaqueous lava from basaltic crust off the East Pacific Rise (ODP Site 1256, Cocos Plate)
No full textThis work examines a massive basaltic lava emplaced in a subaqueous environment and drilled at ODP Site 1256. Site 1256 was drilled on the eastern flank of the East Pacific Rise during ODP Leg 206 (6°44N, 91°56W; Guatemala Basin), located in 15 Ma old oceanic crust created by superfast seafloor spreading (ca. 220 mm/yr). The massive lava lies between thin sheet flows and caps pillow lavas, sheet flows with minor hyaloclastite, breccia and dikes. The massive basalt was encountered in two holes, 1256C and 1256D, which are 30 m apart, and has a thickness of 35 m in Hole 1256C and 75 m in Hole 1256D. It can be interpreted as a ponded lava, originated by rapidly erupted lava accumulated in a off axis >3-5 km depression of a steep paleotopography (Teagle et al., 2004).
The Hole 1256 lava pond has been divided into distinct petrographic units and structural units. Five main structural units with different key flow-related textures and syn-magmatic or late magmatic structures were recognized. Ductile and brittle-ductile structures attributed to the flow gives constraints about the emplacement mechanism of the lava and possibly seafloor topography. Unusual textural features related to the flow kinematics were recognized mainly in the top and in the bottom parts of the lava pond, whereas brittle-ductile and brittle deformations occur throughout the whole ponded body. Microstructures in the base may be interpreted as flow-related deformation of hot ductile coalesced spatter clasts erupted during the first stages of emplacement. Alternatively, they
may have been formed during lava drain-back, in the final emplacement stages
MICROSTRUCTURAL FEATURES OF A SUBAQUEOUS LAVA FROM BASALTIC CRUST OFF THE EAST PACIFIC RISE (ODP SITE 1256 , COCOS PLATE)
No full textDuctile And Brittle-Ductile Structures In Basalt Of The Cocos Plate Crust (Odp Leg 206): Implications For The Emplacement Mechanism Of Lava Flows
No full textEvidence for hydrothermal activity in the earliest stages of intraoceanic arc formation: implications for ophiolite-hosted hydrothermal activity
No full textForearcs within intraoceanic arcs preserve a record of earliest arc volcanism that took place at the initiation of subduction. In this study we have investigated the submarine section of the Bonin Ridge, which forms part of the Izu-Bonin intraoceanic arc and/or forearc system. The crustal stratigraphy of this forearc is found to have many similarities with suprasubduction zone ophiolite sequences, including the occurrence of sheeted dikes overlain by depleted tholeiites and/or boninitic magmatism. We propose that the Izu-Bonin forearc is potentially analogous to suprasubduction ophiolites. Hydrothermal alteration, together with sulfide disseminations, is exposed on some of the subaerial Bonin Islands. Based on geologic observations, the hydrothermal activity appears, in general, to have been contemporaneous with the boninite and boninitic andesite host volcanics. The sulfide mineral assemblage associated with the hydrothermal alteration is dominated by pyrite accompanied by minor chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and pyrrhotite. These sulfides are mainly found as disseminations in pillow breccias and hyaloclastite, or along the margins of dikes, but are also found as sulfide nodules in hydrothermal clay-rich zones. This forearc mineral assemblage contrasts with the Pb-rich mineralization associated with the Quaternary submarine hydrothermal deposits found along the main Izu-Bonin arc. Hydrothermal alteration in the Eocene Izu-Bonin forearc represents the style of hydrothermal activity generated by magmatism immediately after the initiation of intraoceanic subduction. Similarities in the style of hydrothermal activity and in the stratigraphy of the hosting volcanic sequence imply that the Bonin Ridge can be regarded as an in situ (i.e., not obducted or dismembered) analogue for a suprasubduction ophiolite including Cyprus-type massive sulfide deposits
The conditions of the formation of the sheeted dike complex at superfast spread East Pacific Rise revealed by deep ocean crust drilling at ODP Hole 1256D
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The conditions of formation of the sheeted dike complex at superfast spread East Pacific Rise revealed by deep ocean crust drilling at ODP Hole 1256
No full textMagma plumbing system in the superfast spread oceanic crust-insights from deep ocean crustal drilling in ODP-Hole 1256D
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The Off-Hawaii deep crust drilling on the North Arch as a pilot hole for future mantle drilling
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