Umino, Susumu (1995): Downhole variations in grain sizes at DSDP/ODP Hole 504B [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805701, Supplement to: Umino, S (1995): Downhole variations in grain size at Hole 504B: implications for rifting episodes at mid-ocean ridges. In: Erzinger, J; Becker, K; Dick, HJB; Stokking, LB (eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 137, 19-33, https://doi.org/10.2973/odp.proc.sr.137140.002.1995
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Abstract:
The maximum grain sizes of plagioclase and magnetite in the groundmass of the sheeted dike complex drilled at Hole 504B have been measured. Downhole variations through a 440-m-long section show a crude zig-zag pattern consisting of a gradual decrease or increase followed by an abrupt jump. The gradual decrease or increase in grain size extends over many lithologic units, and hence, does not reflect variations in grain size within a single dike. Such a zig-zag pattern is well explained by grain-size variations through multiple dikes. By using the observed inclination of sheeted dikes of 81° ± 2.5°, thickness of the multiple dikes varies from 0.7 to 8.5 m and averages to 4 ± 1 m. The average thickness of individual dikes forming multiple dikes is 0.8 m. We expect such multiple dikes to be formed during rifting events beneath mid-oceanic spreading ridges. If the average expansion at rifting episodes is twice as wide as the average width of the multiple dike units, the full spreading rate of 7.2 cm/yr of Cocos Ridge gives 112 ± 33 yr for a time interval of the rifting.
A simple one-dimensional conductive cooling model is applied to solidification of multiple dikes. Numerical simulations show that the grain-size variations observed through the drill hole are more consistent with a model where a new injection of a dike occurs periodically with a constant time interval rather than one where the next dike intrudes just after the solidification of the previous one. Grain-size variations within simple dikes from Iritono, Japan, and those for Makaopuhi lava lake, Hawaii, show that square root of crystallization time is linearly correlated with the logarithm of plagioclase size. By using an empirically derived relationship between these two variables, the variations of plagioclase size through Hole 504B are directly compared with the calculated times for crystallization. Each rifting episode at the Costa Rica Rift lasts for several years, and periodic injection of a new dike occurs into the center of a previously solidified multiple dike at time intervals varying from 1 to 12 months.
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Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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Median Latitude: 1.226968 * Median Longitude: -83.730278 * South-bound Latitude: 1.226900 * West-bound Longitude: -83.730300 * North-bound Latitude: 1.227200 * East-bound Longitude: -83.730200
Date/Time Start: 1981-11-22T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1991-11-12T04:10:00
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- Umino, S (1995): (Table 2) Width of cooling units at minimum, average, and maximum dike dips, ODP Hole 140-504B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805700
- Umino, S (1995): (Table 1) Grain size measurements of minerals from DSDP/ODP Hole 504B. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.805699