The helium and carbon isotopic signature of Ocean island basalts: Insights from Fogo volcano (Cape Verde archipelago) - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers
Article Dans Une Revue Earth and Planetary Science Letters Année : 2024

The helium and carbon isotopic signature of Ocean island basalts: Insights from Fogo volcano (Cape Verde archipelago)

Francesco Maria Lo Forte
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Guillaume Boudoire
Maria Luce Frezzotti
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Silvio Giuseppe Rotolo
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Andres Sandoval-Velasquez
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Fátima Viveiros
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Vittorio Zanon
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Alessandro Aiuppa
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Andrea Luca Rizzo
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Fluid inclusions (FI) entrapped in phenocrysts carried by Ocean Island Basalts (OIB) contain key information on volatiles' abundance and origin in their mantle sources. Here, we add new piece of knowledge to our understanding of volatile geochemistry in global OIB magmas, by presenting new noble gas (He-Ne-Ar) and carbon (C) isotope results for olivine- and clinopyroxene-hosted FI from enclaves, lavas, tephra and volcanic gas samples from Fogo, the only frequently active volcano at the Cape Verde archipelago (eastern Atlantic Ocean). FI, together with crater fumaroles, constrain the Fogo 3He/4He signature at 7.14–8.44 Rc/Ra (where RC is the air-corrected 3He/4He isotope ratio, and Ra is the same ratio in air), which is within the typical MORB (Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt) mantle. The carbon isotopic ratio (δ13C vs. Pee Dee Belemnite) of CO2 in FI and fumaroles range from -6.04 to -4.41 ‰. We identify systematic variations of δ13C and He/Ar* with FI entrapment pressure (estimated from a combination of host mineral barometry and FI microthermometry), from which we develop a model for volatile degassing in the mantle-to-crustal magma storage system. The model predicts a crustal-like signature for carbon (δ13C of -0.4 ± 1.0 ‰) in primary melts formed by mantle melting at ∼2200 MPa (∼77 km) and a source He/Ar* ratio of 0.90–0.24, which are indicative of variably depleted mantle metasomatized by carbon enriched melts/fluids from a crustal component. We also use our results to characterise regional (in the Cape Verde and Canary archipelagos) and global trends in C and He isotope composition from OIB. From a comparison with the few other OIB localities for which δ13C are available, we propose that a carbon enriched crustal component could be recurrent at a global scale in OIB magmatism, although often masked by isotope fractionation during magmatic degassing. We additionally find that, at regional scale, He isotopes in OIB scale inversely correlate with the degree of partial melting of the mantle beneath individual islands' (inferred from the La/Yb ratio of erupted basalts). More widely, our results corroborate previously established global relationships between OIB He isotopic signature, plume buoyancy flux and overlying plate velocity. In this interpretation, the MORB-like 3He/4He (8 ± 1 Ra) at Fogo reflects a combination of (i) low to medium magma productivity, (ii) relatively low plume buoyancy flux (∼1.1 Mg/s), and (iii) slow average velocity (∼3 cm/yr) of the overlying plate.
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insu-04730590 , version 1 (10-10-2024)

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Francesco Maria Lo Forte, Guillaume Boudoire, Maria Luce Frezzotti, Silvio Giuseppe Rotolo, Andres Sandoval-Velasquez, et al.. The helium and carbon isotopic signature of Ocean island basalts: Insights from Fogo volcano (Cape Verde archipelago). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024, 645, ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118930⟩. ⟨insu-04730590⟩
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