Petrogénesis de los diques alcalinos de Errigoiti (magmatismo de edad Cretácico Superior en la Cuenca Vasco-Cantábrica)
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En la localidad vizcaína de Errigoiti afloran una serie de diques emplazados en las secuencias volcanosedimentarias del Cretácico Superior. Estos diques, constituidos por rocas alcalinas, abarcan un amplio rango composicional (SiO=48.78-61.92%) que incluye basaltos alcalinos, traquiandesitas y tefrifonolitas. Los términos más básicos tienen características composicionales similares a los basaltos de tipo 0IB. Ninguna muestra representa composiciones primarias, no obstante sus relaciones elementales Dy/Yb (2,-2,3), La/Yb (20-28) y Ce/Y (3,2-3,5) sugieren que los magmas que alimentaron estos diques se generaron por bajas tasas de fusión (1,6-1,9%) de un manto astenosférico enriquecido, localizado a una profundidad de unos 70 km. La diversidad litològica responde a la fraccionación de olivino y clinopiroxeno a partir del magma básico original
In the basque village of Errigoiti (Biscay) outcrops a series of dikes emplaced into the Upper Cretaceous volcanosedimentary sequence. These dikes, constituted by alkali rocks, exhibit a wide compositional range (SiO=48.78-61.92%), which includes alkali basalts, trachy-an desites and tephri-phonolites. The most basic terms have similar geochemical characterisics to those of the OIB-type basalts. None of the samples represents a primary melt, nevertheless their elemental ratios Dy/Yb (2.1-2.3), La/Yb (20-28) and Ce/Y (3.2-3.5) suggest that the melts which fed these dikes where generated by low degrees of partial melting (1.6-1.9 %) of an enriched asthenospheric mantle at ca. 70 km indepth. The lithological variety observed would bethe result of olivine and clinopyroxene fractionation from an original basic magma
In the basque village of Errigoiti (Biscay) outcrops a series of dikes emplaced into the Upper Cretaceous volcanosedimentary sequence. These dikes, constituted by alkali rocks, exhibit a wide compositional range (SiO=48.78-61.92%), which includes alkali basalts, trachy-an desites and tephri-phonolites. The most basic terms have similar geochemical characterisics to those of the OIB-type basalts. None of the samples represents a primary melt, nevertheless their elemental ratios Dy/Yb (2.1-2.3), La/Yb (20-28) and Ce/Y (3.2-3.5) suggest that the melts which fed these dikes where generated by low degrees of partial melting (1.6-1.9 %) of an enriched asthenospheric mantle at ca. 70 km indepth. The lithological variety observed would bethe result of olivine and clinopyroxene fractionation from an original basic magma







