Data · collection
Genesis of Volcanic Rocks, Heard Island
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 400 See the link below for public details on this project.
Description
Taken from one of the referenced papers: Oceanic basalts are produced by melting of the Earth's mantle and are widely used to probe its composition. The observation of systematic, coupled variations in the neodymium, strontium and lead isotopic compositions of these basalts has been widely interpreted as reflecting the mixing of identifiable mantle components.
White and Zindler and Hart have suggested that the isotopic compositions of mid-ocean-ridge and ocean island basalts (MORB and OIB) can be considered as mixtures of a depleted MORB-type mantle component with a few other components reflecting long-term enrichment of Rb/Sr, Nd/Sm and/or U/Pb ratios. It remains unclear whether these components should be considered as hypothetical mixing endmembers, or whether they exist physically as mantle reservoirs.
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This question may be addressed if the mixing endmembers of individual mantle plumes can be identified. To this end, we report linear Pb-Pb and curvilinear Pb-Nd and Pb-Sr isotopic covariations in Recent lavas of Heard Island, southern Indian Ocean, indicating binary mixing. The hyperbolic relationships are unique among oceanic basalts and tightly constrain the isotopic compositions of the plume source components, which do not coincide with the mantle endmember components of ref. 3.
If our results are generally applicable to other plumes, they call into question the existence of large mantle reservoirs corresponding to these components, and indicate that actual oceanic basalt source reservoirs have intermediate isotopic compositions.
Links
Documentation and papers
- data.aad.gov.au /aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=2257 ↗
Download point for the data - pdf file - AAD Staff Only
documentation · from NASA CMR
- data.aad.gov.au /aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_400 ↗
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Public information for ASAC project 400 secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=400 ↗
project · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214306630-AU_AADC.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214306630-AU_AADC.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Igneous Rocks · Lava Composition/Texture · Not provided
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214306630-AU_AADC | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/rocks-minerals-crystals/igneous-rocks | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/solid-earth/tectonics/volcanic-activity/eruption-dynamics/lava-composition-texture | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |