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Magmatism in the Bransfield Basin: Rifting of the South Shetland Arc?

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  • Bransfield Basin is an actively extending marginal basin separating the inactive South Shetland arc from the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Rift-related volcanism is widespread throughout the central Bransfield Basin, but the wider eastern Bransfield Basin was previously unsampled. Lavas recovered from the eastern subbasin form three distinct groups: (1) Bransfield Group has moderate large-ion lithophile element (LILE) enrichment relative to normal mid-ocean ridge basalt (NMORB), (2) Gibbs Group has strong LILE enrichment and is restricted to a relic seamount interpreted as part of the South Shetland arc, and (3) fresh alkali basalt was recovered from the NE part of the basin near Spanish Rise. The subduction-related component in Bransfield and Gibbs Group lavas is a LILE-rich fluid with radiogenic Sr, Nd, and Pb isotope compositions derived predominantly from subducting sediment. These lavas can be modeled as melts from Pacific MORB source mantle contaminated by up to 5% of the subduction-related component. They further reveal that Pacific mantle, rather than South Atlantic mantle, has underlain Bransfield Basin since 3 Ma. Magma productivity decreases abruptly east of Bridgeman Rise, and lavas with the least subduction component outcrop at that end. Both the eastward decrease in subduction component and occurrence of young alkali basalts require that subduction-modified mantle generated during the lifetime of the South Shetland arc has been progressively removed from NE to SW. This is inconsistent with previous models suggesting continued slow subduction at the South Shetland Trench but instead favors models in which the South Scotia Ridge fault has propagated westward since 3 Ma generating transtension across the basin.
  • Keywords: volcanic arc, geochemistry, Bransfield Basin, back-arc basin
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  • Fretzdorff, S., T. J. Worthington, K. M. Haase, R. Hékinian, L. Franz, R. A. Keller, and P. Stoffers (2004), Magmatism in the Bransfield Basin: Rifting of the South Shetland Arc?, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B12208, doi:10.1029/2004JB003046.
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  • 109
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  • This work was funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF grant 03GO155C). Roger Hekinian acknowledges financial support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Randy Keller’s participation was supported by the NSF Office of Polar Programs.
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