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Geodynamic settings and magma sources of the Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene magmatic complexes of northern Kamchatka

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Geochemical and isotopic studies showed that the Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene magmatic rocks of northern Kamchatka were formed in different geodynamic zones of a Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene suprasubduction system: from a volcanic front to a back-arc rift basin. Suprasubduction magmas were derived from upper mantle garnet or spinel lherzolites variably depleted in terms of Nd isotopic composition or enriched in HFSE and showing varying Th/La, Th/Ta, Zr/Nb, and Nb/U ratios. Subduction-related fluids played an active role in this process. The suprasubduction mantle melts were not contaminated by crustal materials enriched in radiogenic Nd. A weak imprint of contamination was identified only in the lavas of Karaginsky Island.

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  1. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 35, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    D. V. Kovalenko

  2. Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Far East Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, bul’v. Piipa 9, Petropavlosk-Kamchatskii, 683006, Russia

    A. V. Koloskov

  3. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovskii pr. 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    N. V. Tsukanov

  4. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    P. I. Fedorov

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Kovalenko, A.V. Koloskov, N.V. Tsukanov, P.I. Fedorov, 2009, published in Geokhimiya, 2009, No. 4, pp. 348–377.

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Kovalenko, D.V., Koloskov, A.V., Tsukanov, N.V. et al. Geodynamic settings and magma sources of the Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene magmatic complexes of northern Kamchatka. Geochem. Int. 47, 329–357 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702909040028

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