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Journal of Petrology Advance Access published online on November 26, 2004
Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egh084
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Received June 1, 2003
Accepted September 28, 2004

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Petrology and Geochemistry of Intraplate Basalts in the South Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand: Evidence for Two Coeval Magma Suites from Distinct Sources

CRAIG COOK 1*, ROGER M. BRIGGS 1, IAN E. M. SMITH 2, and ROLAND MAAS 3

1 DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, THE UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO, PRIVATE BAG 3105, HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND
2 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, PRIVATE BAG 92019, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
3 DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, BUNDOORA, VIC. 3083, AUSTRALIA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
CRAIG COOK, E-mail: c.cook{at}waikato.ac.nz


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The South Auckland Volcanic Field is a Pleistocene (1·59-0·51 Ma) basaltic intraplate, monogenetic field situated south of Auckland City, North Island, New Zealand. Two groups of basalts are distinguished based on mineralogy and geochemical compositions, but no temporal or spatial patterns exist in the distribution of various lava types forming each group within the field: Group A basalts are silica-undersaturated transitional to quartz-tholeiitic basalts with relatively low total alkalis (3·0-4·6 wt %), Nb (7-29 ppm), and (La/Yb)N (3·4-7·6); Group B basalts are strongly silica-undersaturated basanites to nepheline-hawaiites with high total alkalis (3·3-7·9 wt %), Nb (32-102 ppm), and (La/Yb)N (12-47). Group A has slightly higher 87Sr/86Sr, similar {varepsilon}Nd, and lower 206Pb/204Pb values compared with Group B. Contrasting geochemical trends and incompatible element ratios (e.g. K/Nb, Zr/Nb, Ce/Pb) are consistent with separate evolution of Groups A and B from dissimilar parental magmas derived from distinct sub-continental lithospheric mantle sources. Differentiation within each group was controlled by olivine and clinopyroxene fractionation. Group B magmas were generated by <8% melting of an ocean island basalt (OIB)-like garnet peridotite source with high 238U/204Pb mantle (HIMU) and enriched mantle (EMII) characteristics possibly inherited from recycled oceanic crust. Group A magmas were generated by <12% melting of a spinel peridotite source also with HIMU and EMII signatures. This source type may have resulted from subduction-related metasomatism of the sub-continental lithosphere modified by a HIMU plume. These events were associated with Mesozoic or earlier subduction- and plume-related magmatism when New Zealand was at the eastern margin of the Gondwana supercontinent.

Keywords: continental intraplate basalts; geochemistry; HIMU, EMII; Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes; South Auckland; sub-continental lithospheric sources.
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