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Geology; March 2005; v. 33; no. 3; p. 185-188; DOI: 10.1130/G21378.1
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Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary age and mid-ocean-ridge–type mantle source for Shatsky Rise

J.J. Mahoney1, R.A. Duncan2, M.L.G. Tejada3, W.W. Sager4 and T.J. Bralower5

1 School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
2 College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
3 National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
4 Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77834, USA
5 Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA

Basalt sills cored in lowermost Berriasian sediments on Shatsky Rise in the northwest Pacific yield a mean 40Ar-39Ar incremental heating age of 144.6 ± 0.8 Ma, providing a minimum estimate on the age of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. The largest part of the rise was emplaced at rates similar to those of several continental flood basalts. The rise formed at an oceanic triple junction, and the sills, as well as lavas from two dredge sites, exhibit an ocean ridge–type Nd-Pb-Sr isotope signature. This signature is provisionally consistent with either a perisphere or meteorite-impact model, but is not predicted by the plume-head model of plateau formation. However, no model can yet be rejected, given the very sparse sampling of Shatsky Rise.

Key Words: time scale • plateaus • hotspots • impacts




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