Boninite-like intraplate magmas from Manihiki Plateau require ultra-depleted and enriched source components

Roman Golowin; Maxim Portnyagin; Kaj Hoernle; Folkmar Hauff; Andrey Gurenko; Dieter Garbe-Schönberg; Reinhard Werner; Simon Turner

doi:10.1038/ncomms14322

Boninite-like intraplate magmas from Manihiki Plateau require ultra-depleted and enriched source components

Roman Golowin^*, Maxim Portnyagin, Kaj Hoernle, Folkmar Hauff, Andrey Gurenko, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, Reinhard Werner, Simon Turner

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Abstract

The Ontong Java and Manihiki oceanic plateaus are believed to have formed through high-degree melting of a mantle plume head. Boninite-like, low-Ti basement rocks at Manihiki, however, imply a more complex magma genesis compared with Ontong Java basement lavas that can be generated by ~30% melting of a primitive mantle source. Here we show that the trace element and isotope compositions of low-Ti Manihiki rocks can best be explained by re-melting of an ultra-depleted source (possibly a common mantle component in the Ontong Java and Manihiki plume sources) re-enriched by ≤1% of an ocean-island-basalt-like melt component. Unlike boninites formed via hydrous flux melting of refractory mantle at subduction zones, these boninite-like intraplate rocks formed through adiabatic decompression melting of refractory plume material that has been metasomatized by ocean-island-basalt-like melts. Our results suggest that caution is required before assuming all Archaean boninites were formed in association with subduction processes.

Original language	English
Article number	14322
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14322
Publication status	Published - 9 Feb 2017

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Golowin, R., Portnyagin, M., Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., Gurenko, A., Garbe-Schönberg, D., ... Turner, S. (2017). Boninite-like intraplate magmas from Manihiki Plateau require ultra-depleted and enriched source components. Nature Communications, 8, 1-10. [14322]. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14322

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