TY - JOUR

T1 - Historic magmatism on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

T2 - a snap-shot of melt generation at a ridge segment

AU - Peate, David W.

AU - Baker, Joel A.

AU - Jakobssen, Sveinn P.

AU - Waight, Tod Earle

AU - Kent, Adam J.R.

AU - Grassineau, Nathalie V.

AU - Skovgaard, Anna Cecile

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - We present new compositional data on a suite of historic lava flows from the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. They were erupted over a short time period between c. 940 and c. 1340 AD and provide a snap-shot view of melt generation and evolution processes beneath this onshore, 65 km long, ridge segment. The lavas are tholeiitic basalts (MgO 6.5-9.2 wt%) and sparsely (5%) olivine and/or plagioclase phyric (±trace clinopyroxene). Individual eruptive events show remarkable compositional homogeneity. Despite a limited variation in Sr-Nd isotope compositions, high-precision double-spike Pb isotope data show tight coherent arrays that, together with correlations with incompatible trace element ratios, indicate control by binary mixing processes. Poor correlations with elemental abundances require that this mixing took place prior to extensive fractional crystallisation. Olivines in the historic lavas have light d18O values (?4.2 to ?4.3%), which is likely to be a feature of the enriched mantle source to Reykjanes Peninsula lavas. High  precision Pb isotope analyses of other post-glacial Reykjanes Peninsula lavas show significant variability in 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb at lower 206Pb/204Pb values than in the historic lavas. This variation demonstrates that at least three compositionally distinct components within the mantle are required to explain the Pb isotope  variations within the Reykjanes Peninsula as a whole.

AB - We present new compositional data on a suite of historic lava flows from the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. They were erupted over a short time period between c. 940 and c. 1340 AD and provide a snap-shot view of melt generation and evolution processes beneath this onshore, 65 km long, ridge segment. The lavas are tholeiitic basalts (MgO 6.5-9.2 wt%) and sparsely (5%) olivine and/or plagioclase phyric (±trace clinopyroxene). Individual eruptive events show remarkable compositional homogeneity. Despite a limited variation in Sr-Nd isotope compositions, high-precision double-spike Pb isotope data show tight coherent arrays that, together with correlations with incompatible trace element ratios, indicate control by binary mixing processes. Poor correlations with elemental abundances require that this mixing took place prior to extensive fractional crystallisation. Olivines in the historic lavas have light d18O values (?4.2 to ?4.3%), which is likely to be a feature of the enriched mantle source to Reykjanes Peninsula lavas. High  precision Pb isotope analyses of other post-glacial Reykjanes Peninsula lavas show significant variability in 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb at lower 206Pb/204Pb values than in the historic lavas. This variation demonstrates that at least three compositionally distinct components within the mantle are required to explain the Pb isotope  variations within the Reykjanes Peninsula as a whole.

KW - Faculty of Science

U2 - 10.1007/s00410-008-0339-4

DO - 10.1007/s00410-008-0339-4

M3 - Journal article

VL - 157

SP - 359

EP - 382

JO - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

JF - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

SN - 0010-7999

IS - 3

ER -