Petit-spot lava fields off the central Chile trench induced by plate flexure
Petit-spot lava fields off the central Chile trench induced by plate flexure
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DOI:
10.2343/geochemj.2.0227
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2013-04
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0.8
通讯作者:
N. Hirano;S. Machida;N. Abe;T. Morishita;A. Tamura;S. Arai
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作者:
N. Hirano;S. Machida;N. Abe;T. Morishita;A. Tamura;S. Arai
mation of a flexed plate, inducing melt-ascent and driving collection of already existing partial melts (Valentine and Hirano, 2010). The location of the tiny submarine volcanoes is, therefore, an important indicator of the stress field of the plate and provides information on the geochemical composition of the mantle below the plate (Hirano, 2011). The monogenetic petit-spot volcanoes of the NW Pacific Plate represent another kind of volcanism in tectonic settings (Hirano et al., 2006). The petit-spot volcanism, in contrast to hotspot volcanoes, does not derive any heat supply from the deep mantle, even though it occurs in an intra-plate setting. The North Arch volcanic field of the Hawaiian Arch, in contrast, is geochemically influenced by the Hawaiian mantle plume (Frey et al., 2000), although the site is distant from the Hawaiian plume center (currently below the active Kilauea volcano and Loihi seamount, approximately 600 km from the North Arch field). Although the generation of these submarine volcanoes is influenced by cracks in the lithosphere that propagate to the surface, it remains uncertain whether these petit-spot volcanoes have a genetic relationship with the areas where the underlying plate has flexed and fractured. This study presents results from a research cruise undertaken along the oceanward slope of the Chile trench off Valparaiso during March 2009, using the research ship Petit-spot lava fields off the central Chile trench induced by plate flexure