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AN: V41A-1432    [Abstracts]
TI: Thermal structure and melting conditions associated with `hot' subduction: Implications from thermobarometry of Garibaldi belt basalts, northern Cascadia Subduction System
AU: * Green, N L
EM: ngreen@geo.ua.edu
AB: The northern Cascadia margin of North America is the classic example of a "hot" subduction system. The downgoing Juan de Fuca plate decreases in age from ca. 10 m.y. off the central Washington coast to less than 5 m.y. off central Vancouver Island; beneath the Garibaldi volcanic belt (GVB) 250 km east of the convergent margin, inferred age of the oceanic lithosphere decreases northward from ca. 22 m.y to 13 m.y. Primitive and near-primitive mafic lavas, which primarily occur trenchward of the GVB volcanic front, range northward from high-Al olivine tholeiites, Mg-andesites and LILE- and LREE-enriched calc-alkaline basalts at Glacier Peak, through transitional basalts in the Cheakamus Valley to alkali olivine basalts and trachybasalts at Meager Mountain, Salal Glacier and Bridge River. The more northerly GVB basaltic magmas show the least evidence of slab-derived components in their source regions. Application of various olivine-melt and pyroxene-melt thermobarometers to GVB basalts indicates a general increase in magmatic temperatures from 1150-1200 C in Mount Baker and Glacier Peak basalts to 1225-1300 C in Bridge River and Salal Glacier lavas. Fe-Ti oxide thermobarometry suggests that northernmost basalts equilibrated under oxygen fugacities conditions between QFM and NNO, whereas Glacier Peak lavas equilibrated at higher oxygen fugacities (ca. 1 log unit above NNO). Estimated P and T conditions of mantle segregation suggest that GVB basalts ascended from increasingly greater depths northward along the volcanic arc. Similar variation is indicated by calculated P-T of basalt equilibrations with both Mg- and Fe-rich peridotite mineral assemblages, based on diopside and albite activity-composition relations. Estimated mantle equilibration temperatures correlate positively with some HFSE abundances (e.g., Hf), but negatively with those of fluid mobile elements (e.g., Cs and B). These relationships are considered in terms of the influence of slab thermal structure on subduction fluxes and mantle sources of arc basalts.
DE: 1037 Magma genesis and partial melting (3619)
DE: 3621 Mantle processes (1038)
DE: 8185 Volcanic arcs
DE: 8411 Thermodynamics (0766, 1011, 3611)
DE: 8413 Subduction zone processes (1031, 3060, 3613, 8170)
SC: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology [V]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005