Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard et al. (2012): Rhenium-osmium isotope systematics and platinum group element concentrations in oceanic crust

Leg/Site/Hole:
DSDP 69 504
DSDP 70 504
DSDP 83 504
DSDP 92 504
ODP 111 504
ODP 137 504
ODP 140 504
ODP 148 504
ODP 118 735
ODP 176 735
Identifier:
2012-041666
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10.1130/G32431.1
doi

Creator:
Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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Hanghoj, Karen
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Atwood, Tracy
author

Kelemen, Peter B.
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Identification:
Rhenium-osmium isotope systematics and platinum group element concentrations in oceanic crust
2012
Geology (Boulder)
Geological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United States
40
3
199-202
Knowledge of the (super 187) Os/ (super 188) Os ratio as well as the inventories of rhenium and platinum group elements (PGE) in oceanic crust allows quantification of the proportion of recycled oceanic crust in oceanic basalt sources. Our knowledge is limited by the availability of well-characterized sections of oceanic crust, specifically of the plutonic, lower portion that has not been drilled in situ to the Moho. Here we report new data for plutonic rocks that compose the bottom 4680 m of an ocean crust section from the Oman ophiolite. Major and trace element data as well as mineral analyses indicate that Oman gabbros are primitive cumulates from melts similar to typical mid-oceanic ridge basalt. The mean weighted composition of this section (Re: 427 pg/g; Os: 55 pg/g; Ir: 182 pg/g; Pd: 2846 pg/g; Pt: 4151 pg/g; initial (super 187) Os/ (super 188) Os: 0.142) indicates significantly higher Os and lower Re concentrations than previously analyzed partial sections of ocean crust that lack cumulate lower crust [Deep Sea Drilling Project-Ocean Drilling Program (DSDP-ODP) Hole 504B, ODP Hole 735B], emphasizing that the lower, cumulate oceanic crust dominates the Os budget of oceanic crust. Analyses of mineral grain size fractions indicate that rhenium, PGE, and lead are enriched in the sulfur-rich, fine fraction. This corroborates the notion that small accessory phases, and the melt migration processes affecting them, control these elements' budgets, distributions, and susceptibilities to alteration. The Re-Os-PGE inventories of a hypothetical 6.5-km-thick composite section that consists of 1825 m of DSDP Hole 504B-like upper oceanic crust and 4680 m of Oman-like lower ocean crust (Re: 736 pg/g; Os: 45 pg/g; Ir: 133 pg/g; Pd: 2122 pg/g; Pt: 2072 pg/g; initial (super 187) Os/ (super 188) Os: 0.146) provide a new comprehensive assessment of oceanic crust composition. Upon recycling and mixing with reasonable proportions of mantle peridotite, this composite requires at least 2 G.y. to develop sufficiently radiogenic (super 187) Os/ (super 188) Os to generate high mu (HIMU: mu = (super 238) U/ (super 204) Pb) basalts.
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Isotope geochemistry; Arabian Peninsula; Asia; Atlantis II fracture zone; crust; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DSDP Site 504; East Pacific; Equatorial Pacific; gabbros; geochemistry; igneous rocks; Indian Ocean; isotope ratios; isotopes; major elements; metals; North Pacific; Northeast Pacific; Ocean Drilling Program; oceanic crust; ODP Site 735; Oman; ophiolite; Os-188/Os-187; osmium; Pacific Ocean; palladium; platinum; platinum group; plutonic rocks; radioactive isotopes; Re-187/Os-188; rhenium; Semail Ophiolite; Southwest Indian Ridge; stable isotopes; sulfur; theoretical models; trace elements;

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