Different Degrees of Partial Melting of the Enriched Mantle Source for Plio-Quaternary Basic Volcanism, Toprakkale (Osmaniye) Region, Southern Turkey

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Bagci U., Alpaslan M., Frei R., Kurt M. A., TEMEL A.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, cilt.20, sa.1, ss.115-135, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3906/yer-1003-30
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.115-135
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: alkali basalt, basanite, Sr-Nd isotopes, dynamic melting, Yumurtalik fault zone, Turkey, TRACE-ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY, RARE-EARTH-ELEMENTS, DEAD-SEA TRANSFORM, PARTITION-COEFFICIENTS, LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE, FAULT ZONE, ALKALINE VOLCANISM, NEOGENE EVOLUTION, PERIDOTITE KLB-1, TRANSITION ZONE
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The Toprakkale (Osmaniye) region, located in the Yumurtalik fault zone in southern Turkey, contains Quaternary volcanic rocks, shown by their mineralogical and petrographical features to be alkali basaltic and basanitic. These alkaline rocks are enriched in the large ion lithophile elements (LILE) Ba, Th and U, and show light rare earth element (LREE) enrichment relative to heavy rare earth element (HREE) on primitive mantle trace and rare earth element patterns that indicate different partial melting of the same source. The isotopic Sr-87/Sr-86 ratio is relatively low (0.703534-0.703575 for the alkali basalts and 0.703120-0.703130 for the basanites) and the Nd-143/Nd-144 ratio is high (0.512868-0.512877 for the alkali basalts and 0.512885-0.512913 for the basanites), suggesting that both units originated from an isotopically depleted mantle source. The degree of partial melting of the Toprakkale volcanic unit was calculated using the dynamic melting method. The alkali basalts were formed by a high degree of partial melting (9.19%) whereas basanites were formed by a low degree of partial melting (4.58%) of the same mantle source.