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标题：Age and Geochemical Features of Dredged Basalts from Offshore SW Taiwan: The Coincidence of Intra-Plate Magmatism with the Spreading South China Sea
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作者：Kuo-Lung Wang ; Yi-Ming Lo ; Sun-Lin Chung 等
期刊名称：Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1017-0839
出版年度：2012
卷号：23
期号：6
页码：657-668
DOI：10.3319/TAO.2012.07.06.01(TT)
出版社：Chinese Geoscience Union
摘要：This study reports age and geochemical analyses of basaltic rocks dredged from volcanic seamounts offshore SW Taiwan. 40 Ar/ 39 Ar dating results of these rocks show them to be of the early Miocene age of ~22 - 21 Ma. They are evolved alkali basalts that show OIB-type geochemical features similar to post-spreading seamount basalts (14 - 3.5 Ma) in the South China Sea (SCS) and Miocene intraplate basalts on the Penghu Islands (16 - 8 Ma) and NW Taiwan (23 - 9 Ma). Their Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data plot within the range of the SCS seamount basalts that show an EM2-like component in the mantle source. The age and overall geochemical characteristics of the dredged basalts are comparable to those of the Kungkuan basalts, NW Taiwan and Baolai basalts, SW Taiwan, suggesting an extensive alkali basaltic volcanism along the southeastern Eurasian continental margin during the early Miocene that resulted from regional lithospheric extension in association with seafloor spreading in the South China Sea.
关键词：Miocene; Dredged basalts; Geochemistry; South China Sea spreading; Taiwan; Eurasian continental margin;