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Structure and Composition of the Nadayansky Lava Flow: an Example of the Homogeneity of Lava Flows of the Siberian Trap Province

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The Nadayansky Flow is one of the main markers of the volcanic pile of the Siberian Trap Province and covers an area of approximately 48 000 km2 at an average thickness of 30 to 50 m. The paper is the first to present data demonstrating the constancy of the major- and trace-element composition of the Nadayansky Flow, typifying basalt lava flows in the province. The flow makes up the bottom part of the Mokulaevsky Formation in the Norilsk area and the bottom of the Khonnamansky Formation at the Putorana Plateau and, correspondingly, overlies the Morongovsky and Ayansky formations (the names of these formations differ because they are used in different schemes for the stratigraphic subdivision of the volcanic rock sequence). The rocks show an obvious glomerophyric texture, which makes this flow clearly distinguishable from the under- and overlying rock units. The composition of the Nadayansky Flow was studied throughout its length of a few hundred kilometers and shows very little varying concentrations of major components (48.31 SiO2, 1.26 TiO2, 15.8 Al2O3, 12.71 Fe2O3, 0.19 MnO, 6.89 MgO, 11.1 CaO, 2.25 Na2O, 0.37 K2O, 0.14 P2O5, 0.02 Cr2O3) and trace elements (2.44 La/Sm and 1.56 Gd/Yb), whose variations are within the analytical uncertainties (XRF and ICP-MS analyses). The basalt of the flow crystallized from tholeiitic melt, whose composition was analogous to those of melts that produced all other flows of the Mokulaevsky Formation. For comparison, the paper displays the inner structures of the underlying Morongovsky and Mokulaevsky formations in the basin of the Mikchangda River in the eastern part of the Norilsk area. The composition of the basalts of these formations also varies insignificantly. The main difference is an increase in TiO2 concentration from 1.19 to 1.3 wt % with the transition from the lower formation to the upper one. In spite of the insignificant difference between the concentrations, it is of principal importance and makes it possible to distinguish between the basalts of these formations. The detected constancy of the compositions of the formations as a whole and the Nadayansky Flow in particular are principally important for studying continental flood basalt provinces and demonstrates the compositional homogeneity of the erupted magmas and their sources. These results are important as an example how geochemical data can be used to correlate widely spaced sequences of volcanic rocks.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank P.I. Tikhonenkov for help with identifying the sampling sites of rock samples from G.V. Nesterenko’s collection. K.B. Gongalsky is thanked for the statistical processing of our data.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-05-90074.

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  2. Rosgeolfond Federal Government-Financed State Organization, 123007, Moscow, Russia

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Krivolutskaya, N.A., Kedrovskaya, T.B. Structure and Composition of the Nadayansky Lava Flow: an Example of the Homogeneity of Lava Flows of the Siberian Trap Province. Geochem. Int. 58, 363–376 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016702920040047

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