FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI The Prinsen af Wales Bjerge formation lavas, East Greenland: The transition from tholeiitic to alkalic magmatism during Palaeogene continental break-up BT AF PEATE, DW BAKER, JA BLICHERT-TOFT, J HILTON, DR STOREY, M KENT, AJR BROOKS, CK HANSEN', H PEDERSEN, AK DUNCAN, RA AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:1;6:1;7:1,4;8:1;9:1,5;10:6; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:; C1 Danish Lithosphere Ctr, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Ecole Normale Super Lyon, Lab Sci Terre, F-69364 Lyon, France. Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, Geosci Res Div, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. Univ Copenhagen, Inst Geol, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Geol Museum, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Oregon State Univ, Coll Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA. C2 DANISH LITHOSPHERE CTR, DENMARK ENS, FRANCE UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, USA UNIV COPENHAGEN, DENMARK GEOL MUSEUM, DENMARK UNIV OREGON STATE, USA IF 2.948 TC 59 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00224/33507/31953.pdf LA English DT Article CR MD 121 / SWIFT BO Marion Dufresne DE ;alkalic lavas;flood basalts;high He-3/He-4;East Greenland;recycled lithosphere;Iceland plume AB We present elemental and isotopic (Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-Os-He) data on primitive alkalic lavas from the Prinsen af Wales Bjeige, East Greenland. Stratigraphical, compositional and Ar-40-Ar-39 data indicate that this inland alkalic activity was contemporaneous with the upper parts of the main tholeiitic plateau basalts and also postdated them. The alkalic rocks show a marked crustal influence, indicating establishment of new magmatic plumbing systems distinct from the long-lived coastal systems that fed the relatively uncontaminated plateau basalts. The least contaminated lavas have high He-3/He-4 isotope ratios (R/R-A 12.4-18.5), sub-chondritic Os-187/(OSi)-O-88 (0.120-0.126), low epsilonNd(i) (similar to + 4) and epsilonHf(i) (similar to+ 6) that plot below the 'Nd-Hf mantle array', and trace element characteristics similar to HIMU ocean. island basalt. (OIB). The uncontaminated magma is inferred to have more radiogenic Pb-206/Pb-204 values (>19.2) than the plateau basalts and Icelandic basalts, and thus represents a possible 'enriched' component to explain the compositional variations within the plateau basalts. One model to explain these compositional features is preferential melting of recycled material within the plume upwelling beneath the thick lithospheric cap, with He-3 contributed from volatile-rich fluids from elsewhere in the Icelandic plume. The exact nature of the recycled component is not yet resolved, although Hf isotope compositions rule out any significant role for recycled pelagic sediment, and the low Os-187/Os-188 limits the participation of recycled basaltic material and argues instead for a contribution from the mantle section of the recycled slab. PY 2003 PD FEB SO Journal Of Petrology SN 0022-3530 PU Oxford Univ Press VL 44 IS 2 UT 000181277300004 BP 279 EP 304 DI 10.1093/petrology/44.2.279 ID 33507 ER EF