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New insights into the age and origin of two small Cretaceous seamount chains proximal to the Northwestern Hawaiian Ridge
Geomorphometric descriptions of archipelagic aprons off the southern flanks of French Frigate Shoals and Necker Island edifices, Northwest Hawaiian Ridge
Mid-Cenozoic Pacific plate motion change: Implications for the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge and circum-Pacific
The Northwest Hawaiian Ridge is a classic example of a large igneous province. The morphology and geology of the ridge is poorly characterized, although it constitutes the longest segment (~47%) of the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain. Here we present a new bathymetric compilation, petrographic and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) data for lavas from 12 volcanoes along the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge, and review literature data for the age and isotopic variation of the ridge. The bathymetric compilation revealed that the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge consists of at least 51 volcanoes. The 45 new XRF analyses show that the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge contains tholeiitic and alkalic lavas with compositions typical of lavas from the Hawaiian Islands. The absolute ages and duration of volcanism of individual Northwest Hawaiian Ridge volcanoes are poorly known, with modern 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages for only 10 volcanoes, mostly near the bend in the chain. We infer the initiation age of the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend to be ca. 49–48 Ma, younger than the age for the onset of island arc volcanism in the western Pacific (52–51 Ma). Thus, the kink in the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain and the onset of arc volcanism were not synchronous. Isotopic data are sparse for the Northwest Hawaiian Ridge, especially for Pb and Hf. Two transitional lavas from just south of the bend have Loa trend type Pb and Sr isotopic ratios. Otherwise, the available chemistry for Northwest Hawaiian Ridge lavas indicates Kea-trend source compositions. The dramatic increase in melt flux along the Hawaiian Ridge (~300%) may be related to changes in melting conditions, source fertility, or plate stresses.
Speculations on Cretaceous tectonic history of the northwest Pacific and a tectonic origin for the Hawaii hotspot
Current interpretations of Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the northwest Pacific trace interactions between the Pacific plate and three other plates, the Farallon, Izanagi, and Kula plates. The Farallon plate moved generally eastward relative to the Pacific plate. The Izanagi and Kula plates moved generally northward relative to the Pacific plate, with Izanagi the name given to the northward-moving plate prior to the Cretaceous normal polarity superchron and the name Kula applied to the postsuperchron plate. In this article I suggest that these names apply to the same plate and that there was only one plate moving northward throughout the Cretaceous. I suggest that the tectonic reorganization that has previously been interpreted as formation of a new plate, the Kula plate, at the end of the superchron was actually a plate boundary reorganization that involved a 2000 km jump of the Pacific–Farallon–Kula/Izanagi triple junction. Because this jump occurred during a time of no magnetic reversals, it is not possible to map or date it precisely, but evidence suggests mid-Cretaceous timing. The Emperor Trough formed as a transform fault linking the locations of the triple junction before and after the jump. The triple junction jump can be compared with an earlier jump of the triple junction of 800 km that has been accurately mapped because it occurred during the Late Jurassic formation of the Mesozoic-sequence magnetic lineations. The northwest Pacific also contains several volcanic features, such as Hawaii, that display every characteristic of a hotspot, although whether deep mantle plumes are a necessary component of hotspot volcanism is debatable. Hawaiian volcanism today is apparently independent of plate tectonics, i.e., Hawaii is a center of anomalous volcanism not tied to any plate boundary processes. The oldest seamounts preserved in the Hawaii-Emperor chain are located on Obruchev Rise at the north end of the Emperor chain, close to the junction of the Aleutian and Kamchatka trenches. These seamounts formed in the mid-Cretaceous close to the spreading ridge abandoned by the 2000 km triple junction jump. Assuming that Obruchev Rise is the oldest volcanic edifice of the Hawaiian hotspot and thus the site of its initiation, the spatial and temporal coincidence between these events suggests that the Hawaii hotspot initiated at the spreading ridge that was abandoned by the 2000 km jump of the triple junction. This implies a tectonic origin for the hotspot. Other volcanic features in the northwest Pacific also appear to have tectonic origins. Shatsky Rise is known to have formed on the migrating Pacific-Farallon-Izanagi triple junction during the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous, not necessarily involving a plume-derived hotspot. Models for the formation of Hess Rise have included hotspot track and anomalous spreading ridge volcanism. The latter model is favored in this article, with Hess Rise forming on a ridge axis possibly abandoned as a result of a ridge jump during the superchron. Thus, although a hotspot like Hawaii could be associated with a deep mantle plume today, it would appear that it and other northwest Pacific volcanic features originally formed as consequences of shallow plate tectonic processes.
The lithosphere crack model, the main alternative to the mantle plume model for age-progressive magma emplacement along the Hawaiian-Emperor volcano chain, requires the maximum horizontal tensile stress to be normal to the volcano chain. However, published stress fields calculated from Pacific lithosphere tractions and body forces (e.g., subduction pull, basal drag, lithosphere density) are not optimal for southeast propagation of a stress-free, vertical tensile crack coincident with the Hawaiian segment of the Hawaiian-Emperor chain. Here we calculate the thermoelastic stress rate for present-day cooling of the Pacific plate using a spherical shell finite element representation of the plate geometry. We use observed seafloor isochrons and a standard model for lithosphere cooling to specify the time dependence of vertical temperature profiles. The calculated stress rate multiplied by a time increment (e.g., 1 m.y.) then gives a thermoelastic stress increment for the evolving Pacific plate. Near the Hawaiian chain position, the calculated stress increment in the lower part of the shell is tensional, with maximum tension normal to the chain direction. Near the projection of the chain trend to the southeast beyond Hawaii, the stress increment is compressive. This incremental stress field has the form necessary to maintain and propagate a tensile crack or similar lithosphere flaw and is thus consistent with the crack model for the Hawaiian volcano chain.