Pb and Sr isotopic constraints on lithospheric magma sources during Mesozoic continental margin arc initiation, southern California
- Indiana/Purdue Univ., Indianapolis, IN (United States). Dept. of Geology
- Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Initiation of the Mesozoic Cordilleran arc in the southwestern US is marked by plutonism from about 241--213 Ma, exposed in the Granite Mountains in the southwestern Mojave Desert, through the Transverse Ranges to the Colorado River trough in southeastern California and southwestern Arizona. Plutons range in composition from diorite to granite, but quartz monzonite and monzodiorite predominate. Plutons intruded 1,700 to 1,100 Ma rocks of the Mojave crustal province [as defined isotopically by Wooden and Miller (1990) and Bennett and DePaolo (1987)], and episomal plutons locally intruded its deformed cratonal/miogeoclinal cover. Plutons emplaced during arc initiation overlap isotopically with local Proterozoic basement rocks, but typically have less radiogenic [sup 207]Pb/[sup 204]Pb, [sup 208]Pb/[sup 204]Pb and [sup 87]Sr/[sup 86]Sr than adjacent, more voluminous Middle-Late Jurassic and Late Cretaceous arc plutons. Among early arc plutons, an inter-suite trend toward more radiogenic Pb and [sup 87]Sr/[sup 86]Sr at similar silica contents reflects regional basement isotopic variability. Generally high Sr contents, low Rb/Sr and limited REE data suggest this inter-suite variations records heterogeneity in eclogite/garnet amphibolite facies mafic lithospheric magma sources, corresponding to mafic lower crust and/or upper mantle formed during 1,700 Ma orogenesis or rift-related magmatism at 1,100 Ma. Intra-suite trends toward less radiogenic Pb at constant or more radiogenic Sr reflect involvement of a U and Th depleted, silicic intracrustal contaminant. Distinctive magma sources and limited crustal interaction during emplacement probably reflects the relatively cool thermal structure of the nascent Cordilleran continental margin arc.
- OSTI ID:
- 5292005
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9305259--
- Journal Information:
- Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States), Journal Name: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States) Vol. 25:5; ISSN GAAPBC; ISSN 0016-7592
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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