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Multiple subduction components in the mantle wedge: Evidence from eruptive centers in the Central Southern volcanic zone, Chile

¹ Department of Earth Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA
² Grupo Magmatico, Instituto de Geología Económica Aplicada, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
³ Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur, Temuco, Chile
⁴ Department of Geology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
⁵ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
⁶ Department of Geology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA

In the Andean Central Southern volcanic zone, basalts from small eruptive centers near the large composite center Volcan Villarrica are poor in fluid mobile elements, such as B, Cs, Rb, K, Pb, Ba, and U, compared with concurrently erupted Villarrica basalts. New ¹⁰Be and U-series isotopic data for these centers show that fluid mobile element–poor small eruptive center basalts have small ¹⁰Be/⁹Be ratios (1.6–1.9 x 10^–11) and (²³⁸U/²³⁰Th) activity ratios near 1.0, whereas basalts from Villarrica show ²³⁸U enrichment and larger ¹⁰Be/⁹Be ratios (4.0–6.4 x 10^–11). These results suggest that small eruptive center basalts include materials derived from the subducted lithosphere that were stored in the mantle wedge for 350 k.y. to 3 m.y. That these materials are poor in fluid mobile elements may reflect fluid expulsion during solidification or their formation in an initially hotter subduction setting. In contrast, the composite center basalts sample materials rich in fluid mobile elements that were recently transferred into the mantle wedge from the subducted lithosphere. The results confirm that mantle wedges in subduction zones include subducted materials added to the wedge over both long and short time scales.

Key Words: subduction-zone magmatism • Chile • U-series isotopes • ¹⁰Be

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