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Giant Circumferential Dyke Swarms: Catalogue and Characteristics

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Dyke Swarms of the World: A Modern Perspective

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Abstract

Giant circumferential dyke swarms have a primary geometry that is quasi-circular or quasi-elliptical. Examples and possible examples described previously or identified in this study have outer diameters that range from ~450 to ~2500 km. There has been little study of these features. Here, we present a global catalogue of giant circumferential dyke swarms and discuss their characteristics. All of the identified giant circumferential swarms are of mafic composition. Many, but not all, are associated with a roughly coeval giant radiating dyke swarm whose focus is at or near the centre of the circumferential system. As giant radiating swarms are usually interpreted to focus above mantle plume centres and form a key component of the plumbing system of large igneous provinces (LIPs), it is likely that giant circumferential swarms linked to radiating systems are also plume and LIP related. The largest giant circumferential swarms have diameters comparable to the diameters postulated for the flattened heads of plumes that have risen from the core-mantle boundary, suggesting that they may be associated with the outer edge of a flattening or flattened mantle plume head. Smaller giant circumferential swarms could be linked with small plumes from the mid-mantle or with the edge of a magmatic underplate above a plume head. Giant circumferential dyke swarms on Earth may be analogues of coronae on Venus and similar features on Mars. Coronae are large tectono-magmatic features that typically consist of a quasi-circular or quasi-elliptical graben-fissure system and associated topography (central uplift or depression, and circular rim or moat). In some instances, they are linked to a giant radiating graben-fissure system and LIP-scale volcanism. Both radiating and circumferential graben on Venus and Mars have been interpreted to be underlain by dykes.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Erin Bethell, Benoit Saumur, Sally Pehrsson, Eric Grosfils, Daniel Mège, Marie-Claude Williamson and Laurent Montési for discussions on circumferential dykes on Earth, coronae on Venus and/or potential analogues on Mars. Sally Pehrsson, Michiel de Kock and Franco Pirajno provided helpful reviews of the manuscript. R. Ernst has been partially supported from Mega-Grant 14.Y26.31.0012 of the Russian Federation. This is Natural Resources Canada contribution #20180022.

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Buchan, K.L., Ernst, R.E. (2019). Giant Circumferential Dyke Swarms: Catalogue and Characteristics. In: Srivastava, R., Ernst, R., Peng, P. (eds) Dyke Swarms of the World: A Modern Perspective. Springer Geology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1666-1_1

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