Sedimentary and Volcanic History: East Mariana Basin and Nauru Basin
Sedimentary and Volcanic History: East Mariana Basin and Nauru Basin
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沉积和火山历史:东马里亚纳盆地和瑙鲁盆地
DOI:
10.2973/dsdp.proc.89.129.1986
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发表时间:
1986
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通讯作者:
R. Moberly
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作者:
S. Schlanger;R. Moberly
The sedimentary section recovered during Leg 89 at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 525 provided a record of volcanism, plate motion, and other events of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of the East Mariana Basin. This part of the Pacific lithosphere had formed in the Jurassic; by late Aptian time it was at about 22°S and had subsided to a depth of about 5000 m. In the Aptian and Albian, eruptions built major volcanic edifices nearby that were the sources of massive volcaniclastic debris flows and turbidites found at Site 525. The now deeply altered sediment originally was of quartz-normative tholeiitic basalt composition, with some later alkalic basalt contributions. Reefal debris, ooids, and displaced benthic foraminifers within the hyaloclastic and other volcanogenic components show that some of the volcanoes reached shallow water. They are now the seamounts and guyots north and south of the eastern end of the East Mariana Basin. Recovered cores show evidence of the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event in debris rich in organic carbon redeposited in turbidites, of passage under the equator in Campanian-Maestrichtian time from core Paleomagnetism, and of the Oligocene (P21-P22) fall of sea level that exposed seamounts and thereby caused renewed turbidite activity. The Nauru Basin igneous complex discovered during Leg 61 yielded cores of 12 additional volcanic units as a result of the deepening of Hole 462A during Leg 89. The mineralogical and geochemical homogeneity within these (and overlying) sheet flows, as well as their little-altered nature and small amount of interlayered sediment, indicate that the great volume of midplate magma was generated and erupted rapidly. The lowest flows drilled during Leg 89 probably are 130 Ma (Valanginian). They lie on M26-aged ridge-crest crust (about 145 Ma, Oxfordian), and underlie volcanogenic sediment and sills representing at least two other episodes of midplate igneous activity, namely in the Aptian and Albian (about 100 Ma) and in the Campanian (about 75 Ma).