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Transcript of Lecture 3. Beyond the Plate Tectonics: Plumes, Large Ign. Provinces and Mass Extinctions.
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Lecture 3. Beyond the Plate Tectonics: Plumes, Large Ign.
Provinces and Mass Extinctions
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Outline
Plumes and LIPs general features
Siberian Traps
Major open questions
Model
Relation to mass extinction
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Plates
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Hot Spot TrackWillson, 1963; Morgan, 1971
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Hot Spot= Mantle Plume-
Classical feature beyond plate tectonics
Currently, existence of plumes is under debate: anti-plume site– www.mantleplumes.org
Main anti-plume argument—no predicted uplift before eruption of Large Igneous Province
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Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs)
After Saunders et al. (1992)
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Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs)
After Saunders et al. (1992)
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Large Magma Volume
• Siberian Flood Basalts- over 4 mln. km3
• Deccan Traps- 2 mln. km3
• North Atlantic Province- over 2-4 mln. km3
• Columbia River Province- 0.3 mln. km3
• Plato Onthong-Java- over 40 mln. km3
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Short Time Scales of Major Magmatic Phases
• The most precise dating gives age ranges for the main magmatic phase within method accuracy ±1 mln.y.
• The full range of magmatic activity may exceed 10 mln.y.
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Ar-Ar age of Siberian Flood Basalts 250±1.1 Ma
Reichow et al, 2009
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LIPs often predate continental break-up
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Continental break-up
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Continental break-up
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Continental break-up
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Continental break-up
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LIPS are related to hot spotsDeccan Traps—Reunion HS
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Parana-Etendeka—Tristan HS
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LIPs source has high temperature
Herzberg & Gazel, 2009
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Torsvik et al., 2007, 2008
LIPs sources are in the Lower Mantle ?
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Campbell & Griffiths, 1990
An experimental starting plume (in glucose syrup)
Plume
Plume head model of LIPs
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Plume head model of LIPs
Surface uplift = 0.7-1.0 km/100°, i.e. 1.4-3 km for DT= 200-300°
White and McKenzie, 1989; Richards et al.,1989, Campbell and Griffiths, 1990
Uplift of >1 km must be common for LIPs but it is not!
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White and Saunders (2005)
LIPs correlate with mass extinction events
Ridgwell, 2005
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Payne et al, PNAS, 2010
Ocean acidification as a kill mechanism
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Ganino & Arndt, 2009, Svensen et al., 2009
No correlation with LIPs volume
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Ganino & Arndt, 2009, Svensen et al., 2009
Elegant explanation
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• Over 4 mln. km3 of magmas produced in less than 1 ma
• The age of province is about 252 ma and coincides with P-T mass extinction
• No uplift before magmatism
Siberian LIP
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Siberian TrapsReichow et al, 2009
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Siberian Traps
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Questions• Why no pre-magmatic uplift?• Why enormous volume of magmas erupted
at thick cratonic lithosphere without extreme extension?
• How lithosphere was thinned by >50 km during only few 100 thousand years?
• What was the source of large volumes of CO2 and other gases that triggered P-T mass extinction? Heating of coal?
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Sobolev et al, Science, 2007
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Sobolev et al, Science, 2007
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Crustal recycling Hofmann and White, 1980-1982
Kellogg et al., 1999
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Eclogite: clinopyroxene ≥ garnet ± SiO2
phase
Photo and sample of I. Aschepkov
1 смсм
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Sobolev, et al, 2005
Pyroxenite -Sobolev et al, 2007;
peridotite- Walter, 1998
T C
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Pyroxenite-derived melt compared with peridotite-derived melt
• High Ni and Si and low Mn/Fe, Ca and Mg: because pyroxene and garnet buffers Ni, Si, Mn, Fe, Ca and Mg instead of olivine (Kelemen et al 1998, Humayun et al, 2004, Sobolev et al, 2005, Herzberg, 2006, Sobolev et al, 2007);
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Thermomechanical model of Siberian LIP constrained by
petrological data based on 2011 paper
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Petrological constraints
• Plume potential temperature Tp=1600°C
• Eclogite content in plume 10-20wt% (15wt%)
• Initial lithospheric thickness >130 km
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Melt sources composition
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Melting of peridotite (Katz et al, 2003), of eclogite and pyroxenite (based on experiments of Yaxley, and Hirschmann group, Sobolev et al, 2007
Improvements of tne thermomechanical modeling technique
Melt transport procedure (fast compaction porous-flow-like in the melting region and intrusion in the lithosphere)
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Model setup
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Thermal plume(Tp=1650°C)no melting
0 Myr
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Thermal plume no melting
0.25 Myr
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Thermal plume no melting
0.5 Myr
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Thermo-chemical plume (Tp=1650°C,18% eclogite)
no melting
0 Myr
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Thermo-chemical plume no melting
0.5 Myr
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Thermo-chemical plume no melting
1.5 Myr
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0.5 Myr Thermal plume
Thermo-chemical plume
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Elevation
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Temperature
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0.5 Mln years
Composition
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Numerical model
Sobolev et al. submitted
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Effect of lithosphere
Different lithospheric depletionDifferent lithospheric thickness
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Effect of plume
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Different plume composition
Effect of plume
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Melt production and composition
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Plume degassing
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Plume degassing
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Ganino & Arndt, 2009, Svensen et al., 2009
But we lose elegant explanation!
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But we have another!
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Such a plume is able to thin dramatically cratonic lithosphere without extension and to generate several mln km3 of melt in few 100 thousand years
ConclusionsThermochemical plume rich in recycled crust does not generate significant pre-magmatic uplift of the lithosphere
Massive CO2 and HCl degassing from the plume could alone trigger the Permian-Triassic mass extinction and before the main volcanic phase
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Conclusions
Plumes do exist, but they are not purely thermal but thermochemical
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Sobolev et al. in prep.
Model of the Ontong Java Plateau