 | | Book | | The Geology of the
Canary Islands
The Geology of the
Canary Islands
Juan Carlos Carracedo
Honorary...Honorary Emeritus Professor, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Valentin R. Troll
Chair in Petrology...MPS Limited, Chennai, India
Foreword
The Canary Islands are highly popular with tourists, yet relatively...brings up to date and extends the earlier
âCanary Islandsâ publication by Carracedo and Day, which appeared...growth,
and erosion of these fascinating volcanic islands.
The opening chapter provides an overview of the |  | Gurenko, Andrey A., Hoernle, Kaj A., Sobolev, Alexander V., Hauff, Folkmar, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (2010) Source components of the Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) shield stage magmas: evidence from olivine composition and SrâNdâPb isotopes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 159 (5) 689-702 doi:10.1007/s00410-009-0448-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PAPER
Source components of the Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) shield
stage magmas: evidence from olivine...October 2009
Ă Springer-Verlag 2009
Abstract The Canary Island primitive basaltic magmas
are thought to...pyroxenite, we obtain an end
member composition for peridotite with 87Sr/86Sr =
0.70337, 143Nd/144Nd = 0.51291...proportions ranging from 70% peridotite and 30% pyroxenite to 28% peridotite and 72% pyroxenite derived...from the low-silica rocks from the western Canary
Islands (Gurenko et al. EPSL 277:514â524, 2009), at |  | Gurenko, Andrey A., Sobolev, Alexander V., Hoernle, Kaj A., Hauff, Folkmar, Schmincke, Hans-Ulrich (2009) Enriched, HIMU-type peridotite and depleted recycled pyroxenite in the Canary plume: A mixed-up mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277 (3) 514-524 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.013 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | |
Enriched, HIMU-type peridotite and depleted recycled pyroxenite in the Canary
plume: A mixed-up mantle...December 2008
Editor: R.W. Carlson
Keywords:
Canary Islands
mantle plume
pyroxenite
olivine
radiogenic...assess the physical nature of the source material (peridotite versus olivine-free pyroxenite)
[Sobolev et al...but appears to have been primarily hosted by peridotite. This implies that the old
(older than ~1 Ga)...reïŹecting the relative
contributions of the pure peridotite mantle and the recycled
(eclogitic) component |  | Gurenko, A.A., Hoernle, K.A., Hauff, F., Schmincke, H.-U., Han, D., Miura, Y.N., Kaneoka, I. (2006) Major, trace element and NdâSrâPbâOâHeâAr isotope signatures of shield stage lavas from the central and western Canary Islands: Insights into mantle and crustal processes. Chemical Geology, 233 (1) 75-112 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.02.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | shield stage lavas from the central and western Canary Islands:
Insights into mantle and crustal processes...January 2006; accepted 14 February 2006
Abstract
The Canary plume is one of the few plumes that can be traced...stage lavas erupted on Gran
Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera and La Palma because these rocks are believed...elements
([La/Sm]n = 2.1â4.6), strongly enriched in Nb and Ta ([Nb/La]n = 0.8â1.5, [Ta/La]n = 1.3â1.8)...8) and depleted in K and Pb ([K/
La]n = 0.2â0.7; [Pb/La]n = 0.2â0.3), resembling HIMU-type magmas. Fractional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope heterogeneity of the mantle beneath the Canary
Islands: insights from olivine phenocrysts
Andrey A...Springer-Verlag 2010
A. A. Gurenko (&) M. Chaussidon
Centre de Recherches PeÌtrographiques et GeÌochimiques,
CNRS...erupted on Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La
Gomera, La Palma and El Hierro, Canary Islands, for
which shallow level...erupted on El Hierro, the westernmost
island of the Canary Archipelago, was used to estimate
oxygen isotope...compositions of partial melts presumably
originated from peridotite (HIMU-type component inherited its radiogenic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Schmincke
Multi-stage magma ascent beneath the Canary Islands:
evidence from ÂŻuid inclusions
Received: 30...rocks from
Gran Canaria, La Palma, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La
Gomera (Canary Islands) contain abundant CO2-dominated...simultaneous formation of young inclusions, at well-deÂźned
magma stagnation levels. For Gran Canaria, pressure...for La Palma, and 0.55±0.75 GPa for
Lanzarote. The highest-density ÂŻuid inclusions in many
Canary Island...xenolith
entrainment. Inclusion data from all islands indicate
ponding of basaltic magmas at Moho or |  | | Book | | Iceland Thor Thordarson & Armann Hoskuldsson
. Canary Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day
. The north...Alexander
Geology and landscapes of Scotland
Con Gillen
La catastrophe: Mount Pelée and the destruction of Saint-Pierre...Livingstone & Andrew Warren
Canary Islands
Juan Carlos Carracedo
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas...Composition of magmas 5; Morphology
1
of the islands and subsidence histories 6; Controls on volcano...flora and fauna 12; Getting to and around the islands 14;
Practicalities in the field 16
Fuerteventura |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and inclusions within spinel peridotite
xenoliths, La Gomera, Canary Islands
MARIA-LUCE FREZZOTTI1*, JACQUES...Aard- en Levenswetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands...dunite-werhlite and pyroxenite) from La Gomera, Canary Islands. Primary carbonates are
Mg-calcite (XCa...silicate fraction after decarbonation.
Key-words: Canary Islands; mantle xenoliths; melt and fluid inclusions;...xenoliths from Spitsbergen, Tahaa Archipelago, the Canary
Islands and Kerguelen archipelago (Amundsen, 1987; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope heterogeneity of the mantle beneath the
Canary Islands: a discussion of the paper of Gurenko et al...olivine grains from the Canary Islands
of Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma and El
Hierro. As...As with prior studies of oxygen isotopes in Canary
Island lavas (e.g. Thirlwall et al. Chem Geol 135:233â262...(*4.6â6.0 %) beyond that measured
for mantle peridotite olivine (Mattey et al. Earth Planet Sci
Lett...variation to
reflect contributions from pyroxenite-peridotite mantle
sources. Furthermore, Gurenko et al. (Contrib |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Indicators in Mafic
and Uhramafic Rocks from Canary Islands
Mercedes Mufioz * and J u a n a Sagredo *
Department...rocks (inclusions and layered outcrops) in the Canary Islands as geobarometrie
indicators of the depth of...different rock types. The upper mantle origin of
peridotite and gabbro inclusions was confirmed, while a...for the
layered complexes. Finally, a scheme of Canary substrate is outlined.
I. Introduction
I n the...formations of different islands of the Archipelago (Lanzarote, Tenerife, Gran Canaria
and La Palma). The other |  | Demény, A., Casillas, R., Hegner, E., Vennemann, T. W., Nagy, G., Sipos, P. (2010) Geochemical and H-O-Sr-Nd isotope evidence for magmatic processes and meteoric-water interactions in the basal complex of La Gomera, Canary Islands. Mineralogy and Petrology, 98 (1) 181-195 doi:10.1007/s00710-009-0071-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interactions in the basal
complex of La Gomera, Canary Islands
A. Demény & R. Casillas & E. Hegner &...plutonic rocks of the Basal Complex of La
Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain, were studied by means of
major and...studies on the plutonic rocks of
Fuerteventura and La Palma. Late-stage alteration took place
during the...Departamento de Edafologia y Geologia,
Universidad de La Laguna,
Avda. Astrofisico Fco. SĂĄnchez,
38206 La Laguna...Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
E. Hegner
Department fĂŒr Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften,
Ludwig Maximilians UniversitÀt |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | U-series disequilibria in volcanic rocks from the Canary Islands: Plume versus
lithospheric melting
CRAIG C...Sciences Dept., University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
2
(Received March 15,...are presented for Holocene samples from the Canary Islands and interpreted
with special emphasis on the...alkali basalts and tholeiites from the eastern Canary Islands whereas
lower ratios are exclusively found...found in differentiated rocks from the western Canary Islands. Those with
ordinary Nb/U ratios are attributed |  | | Book | | FĂsica-GeologĂa
University of Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Spain
Managing Editor
Sebastian...Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The Canary Islands Archipelago, offshore of the northwestern coast...of 20 million
years. This 600-km-long chain of islands (total population *2 million),
with their beautiful...destination is Teide Volcano on the Island of Tenerife, the centerpiece of Teide National Park and the...the central part of
Tenerife, reaching the highest elevation in the Canaries and Spain.
Moreover, if its |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Science Letters
www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl
The Canary Islands hot spot: New insights from 3D coupled
geo...Geosciences (CSIC, UCM), Plaza de Ciencias, 3, ES-28040 Madrid, Spain
Dept. of Geophysics, Facultad CC...Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Plaza de Ciencias, 1, ES-28040 Madrid, Spain
a r t i c l e
i n f o...seismic tomography
Canary Islands
mantle plume
hot spot
a b s t r a c t
The Canary archipelago (NW Atlantic...mantle thermochemical structure beneath the Canary Islands is studied using an integrated and selfconsistent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | evidence
for shallow enriched mantle beneath the Canary Islands
Kaj H o e r n l e a,1, G e o r g e T i l t...Geological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
b GEOMAR, Wischhofstrasse...field for the two
youngest and westernmost Canary Islands in all isotope correlation diagrams and thus...the amount of Sr-Nd-Pb isotope data from ocean
islands. At least four components are required to
explain...of Earth Sciences; University
of California; Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
0012-821X/91/$03.50
remains |  | DemĂ©ny, Attila, Casillas, RamĂłn, Ahijado, Agustina, de La Nuez, Julio, Andrew Milton, J., Nagy, GĂ©za (2008) Carbonate xenoliths in La Palma: Carbonatite or alteration product?. Geochemistry, 68 (4) 369-381 doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2008.05.002 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 369â381
www.elsevier.de/chemer
Carbonate xenoliths in La Palma: Carbonatite or alteration product?
Attila...DemeÌnya,, RamoÌn Casillasb, Agustina Ahijadob, Julio de La Nuezb,
J. Andrew Miltonc, GeÌza Nagya
a
Institute...Dpto. de Edafologia y Geologia, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofisico Fco. SaÌnchez, 38206 La Laguna...Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
c
School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton Oceanography Centre, European Way...collected in basaltic rocks of the
Basal Complex of La Palma. The mineralogical composition and microscopic |  | Day, James M.D., Pearson, D. Graham, Macpherson, Colin G., Lowry, David, Carracedo, Juan Carlos (2010) Evidence for distinct proportions of subducted oceanic crust and lithosphere in HIMU-type mantle beneath El Hierro and La Palma, Canary Islands. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74 (22) 6565-6589 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HIMU-type mantle beneath El Hierro and
La Palma, Canary Islands
James M.D. Day a,b,â, D. Graham Pearson...EstacioÌn Volcanologica De Canarias, CSIC, 38206, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
b
Received 9 February 2010;...Shield-stage high-MgO alkalic lavas from La Palma and El Hierro (Canary Islands) have been characterized for their...= 19.1 to 19.7; Pd/Ir = 6 ± 3) versus those from La Palma
(d18Oolivine = 4.87 ± 0.18&; 87Sr/86Sr = 0...in
the garnet stability ïŹeld (P110 km). Western Canary Island lavas were sulphur undersaturated with estimated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | upper mantle beneath
Fuerteventura (eastern Canary Islands): Evidence from
mantle xenoliths
M.A. Abu El-Rus...and wehrlites) in the easternmost
part of the Canary Islands chain, are highly deformed and show a wide...other Canary Islands appears to have had similar composition before the onset of the Canary Islands magmatism...2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Canary Island; Petrogenesis; Serpentinization; Dehydration;...xenoliths from the islands
of La Palma, Hierro, Tenerife and Lanzarote in the
Canary Islands archipelago (Fig |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | somewhat deeper (up to 50 km deeper than the LAB) peridotite source can explain the OIB major
element chemistry...However, deeper melting of volatile-free, fertile peridotite is not
sufïŹcient to explain the end member primary...OIB
and experimental partial melts of fertile peridotite indicates that at least two additional melt components...two components are not evenly sampled by all the islands,
suggesting a heterogeneous distribution of mantle...candidates, which in
conjunction with fertile mantle peridotite, give rise to the two primitive OIB end members |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | olivine from historical eruptions of Lanzarote,
Canary Islands: Constraints on mantle source and melting mode...olivine from historical eruptions of Lanzarote, Canary Islands: Constraints on mantle source and melting mode...olivine from historical eruptions of
Lanzarote, Canary Islands: constraints on mantle source and
PT
melting...12 Jose Antonio
NU
b
Novais, 28040, Madrid, Spain
NordVulk, Institute of Earth Sciences, University...eruption; 1824 eruption; Trace element; Olivine; Peridotite;
Pyroxenite; Carbon dioxide
Oceanic island basalts |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2009
Available online 6 June 2009
Keywords:
Ocean islands
Intra-plate magmatism
OIB compositions
Lithospheric...island-averaged geochemical data for 115 volcanic islands with known eruption ages and
ages of the underlain...increasing lithosphere thickness. The islandaveraged [La/Sm]CN and [Sm/Yb]CN ratios also increase with increasing...potential temperature
variation beneath ocean islands cannot be constrained with the existing data. Fertile...compositional variation on a given island, between islands
and between island groups. The OIB mantle source |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope heterogeneity of the mantle beneath
the Canary Islands: a discussion of the paper of Gurenko et al...obtained oxygen isotope data for El Hierro and La Palma
(Canary Island) olivines, (2) questions the approach...2-sigma uncertainty
better than ±0.25 %.
Keywords Canary Islands Oxygen isotopes Olivine
Ion microprobe...Address:
A. A. Gurenko (&) M. Chaussidon
Centre de Recherches PeÌtrographiques et GeÌochimiques,
CNRS-INSU-Nancy...Gurenko et al. (2011) for El Hierro
and La Palma (Canary Islands) olivines; (2) questions the
approach |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 33--48 (1972)
9 by Springer-Verlag 1972
Evolution of La Palma, CanaryArchipelago
E r i c A. K. M i d d l...Received May 3, 1972
Abstract. La Palma is the northwestern island in the Canary archipeIago. The island is...rocks form part of the
floor of the huge Caldera de Taburiente. In the walls of the Caldera one finds...a near surface environment.
I t is proposed that La Palma developed on a relatively cold section of a...eruptions.
During the first phase in the evolution of La Palma the submarine edifice of the island
was constructed |  | Frezzotti, Maria Luce, Andersen, Tom, Neumann, Else-Ragnhild, Simonsen, Siri Lene (2002) Carbonatite meltâCO2 fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from Tenerife, Canary Islands: a story of trapping, immiscibility and fluidârock interaction in the upper mantle. Lithos, 64 (3) 77-96 doi:10.1016/s0024-4937(02)00178-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fluid inclusions in mantle xenoliths from
Tenerife, Canary Islands: a story of trapping, immiscibility and...spinel harzburgite and lherzolite
xenoliths from Tenerife: pure CO2 (Type A); carbonate-rich CO2 â SO2 mixtures...melt infiltrating the upper mantle beneath the Tenerife. First, the original siliceous carbonatite melt...al. / Lithos 64 (2002) 77â96
1. Introduction
Peridotite xenoliths that are brought to the surface
by...the abundance and distribution of elements in peridotite xenoliths and their
constituent minerals show |  | Herzberg, C., Cabral, R.A., Jackson, M.G., Vidito, C., Day, J.M.D., Hauri, E.H. (2014) Phantom Archean crust in Mangaia hotspot lavas and the meaning of heterogeneous mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 396. 97-106 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.065 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Boston, MA 02215, USA
c
UC Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
d
Geosciences...Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244, USA
e
Department of Terrestrial...April 2014
Editor: T. Elliott
Keywords:
olivine
peridotite
pyroxenite
eclogite
isotopes
HIMU
a b s t r...pyroxenite, results show a mixed
peridotite and pyroxenite source, with peridotite dominating. If the isotopic...into the surrounding mantle
peridotite, yielding a refertilized peridotite. Evidence from one sample reveals |
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