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Science 13 August 1993:
Vol. 261. no. 5123, pp. 902 - 906
DOI: 10.1126/science.261.5123.902
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Articles
Early and Late Alkali Igneous Pulses and a High-3He Plume Origin for the Deccan Flood Basalts
Asish R. Basu 1,
Paul R. Renne 2,
Deb K. DasGupta 3,
Friedrich Teichmann 1, and
Robert J. Poreda 1
1 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
2 Institute of Human Origins, Geochronology, Center, Berkeley, CA 94709
3 Department of Geology, Presidency College, Calcutta, India 700073
Several alkalic igneous complexes of nephelinite-carbonatite affinities occur in extensional zones around a region of high heat flow and positive gravity anomaly within the continental flood basalt (CFB) province of Deccan, India. Biotites from two of the complexes yield 40Ar/39Ar dates of 68.53 ± 0.16 and 68.57 ± 0.08 million years. Biotite from a third complex, which intrudes the flood basalts, yields an 40Ar/39Ar date of 64.96 ± 0.1 1 million years. The complexes thus represent early and late magmatism with respect to the main pulse of CFB volcanism 65 million years ago. Rocks from the older complexes show a 3He/4He ratio of 14.0 times the air ratio, an initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.70483, and other geochemical characteristics similar to ocean island basalts; the later alkalic pulse shows isotopic evidence of crustal contamination. The data document 3.5 million years of incubation of a primitive, high-3He mantle plume before the rapid eruption of the Deccan CFB.
Submitted on March 8, 1993
Accepted on June 8, 1993
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