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The diverse geodynamic conditions of the parental magma’s melting are responsible for the compositional diversity of the alkaline volcanics near the southwestern margin of Iberia. The petrological-geochemical data show that the volcanics of the Gorringe Bank originated within the continental plate. The parental melilitite melts depleted in silica and anomalously enriched with trace elements could have been generated only in deep settings with a low degree of metasomatically enriched mantle matter melting. The volcanic melilitite-nephelinite-phonolite series is widespread in alkaline provinces of the Eurasian, African, and other continental plates. The Ampere, Josephine, and other seamounts and islands of the region are largely composed of volcanic rocks belonging to the picrobasalt-hawaiite-mugearite association. Their parental magmas were generated within the oceanic plate at shallower depths under a higher degree of moderately enriched oceanic lithospheric mantle melting. Both series of volcanics were formed under the influence of mantle plumes.
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Original Russian Text © E.A. Chernysheva, V.V. Matveenkov, A.Ya. Medvedev, 2012, published in Okeanologiya, 2012, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 733–743.
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Chernysheva, E.A., Matveenkov, V.V. & Medvedev, A.Y. Two types of alkaline volcanics in the southwestern Iberian margin: The causes of their diversity. Oceanology 52, 677–687 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437012050049
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