Floyd, Peter A (1986): Petrology and geochemistry of oceanic intraplate sheet-flow basalts at DSDP Hole 89-462A [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793362, Supplement to: Floyd, PA (1986): Petrology and geochemistry of oceanic intraplate sheet-flow basalts, Nauru Basin, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 89. In: Moberly, R; Schlanger, SO; et al. (eds.), Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office), 89, 471-497, https://doi.org/10.2973/dsdp.proc.89.117.1986
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Abstract:
Reentry of Hole 462A during Leg 89 resulted in the penetration of a further 140 m of basalt sheet-flows similar to those found during Leg 61 at the same site. Twelve volcanic units (45 to 56) were recognized, comprising a series of rapidly extruded, interlayered aphyric and poorly clinopyroxene-plagioclase-olivine phyric, nonvesicular basalts. All exhibit variable, mild hydration and oxidation, relative to fresh oceanic basalts, produced under reducing, low-CO2-activity conditions within the zeolite facies. Secondary assemblages are dominated by smectites, zeolites, and pyrite, produced by low-temperature reaction with poorly oxygenated seawater. No systematic mineralogical or chemical changes are observed with depth, although thin quenched units and more massive hypocrystalline units exhibit slightly different alteration parageneses.
Chemically, the basalts are olivine- and quartz-normative tholeiites, characterized by low incompatible-element abundances, similar to mildly enriched MORB (approaching T-type), with moderate, chrondite-normalized, large-ionlithophile- element depletion patterns and generally lower or near-chrondritic ratios for many low-distribution-coefficient (KD) element pairs. In general, relative to cyclic MORB chemical variation, they are uniform throughout, although 3 chemical megagroups and 22 subgroups are recognized. It is considered that the megagroups represent separate low-pressure-fractionated systems (olivine + Plagioclase ± clinopyroxene), whereas minor variations within them (subgroups) indicate magma mixing and generation of near-steady-state conditions. Overall, relatively minor fractionation coupled with magma mixing produced a series of compositionally uniform lavas. Parental melts were produced by similar degrees of partial melting, although the source may have varied slightly in LIL-element content.
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Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
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Latitude: 7.241700 * Longitude: 165.031700
Date/Time Start: 1982-11-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1982-11-05T00:00:00
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89-462A * Latitude: 7.241700 * Longitude: 165.031700 * Date/Time: 1982-11-05T00:00:00 * Elevation: -5177.0 m * Penetration: 1209 m * Recovery: 74.4 m * Location: North Pacific * Campaign: Leg89 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 17 cores; 137.3 m cored; 0 m drilled; 54.2 % recovery
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- Floyd, PA (1986): (Table 5) Major- and trace elements at DSDP Hole 89-462A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793360
- Floyd, PA (1986): (Table 1) Lithology at DSDP Hole 89-462A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793357
- Floyd, PA (1986): (Table 4) Modal proportions of primary and secondary minerals in selected basalts at DSDP Hole 89-462A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793359
- Floyd, PA (1986): (Table 6) Normative composition at DSDP Hole 89-462A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793361