Distributions of mantle heterogeneity across segment at southern segment of Central Indian Ridge

Hiroshi SATO; Shiki MACHIDA; Ryoko SENDA

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Symbol S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-CG Complex & General

[S-CG64] Ocean Floor Geoscience

Thu. May 28, 2015 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM A05 (APA HOTEL&RESORT TOKYO BAY MAKUHARI)

Convener:*Kyoko Okino(Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo), Keiichi Tadokoro(Research Center for Seismology, Volcanology and Earthquake and Volcano Research Center, Nagoya University), Osamu Ishizuka(Geological Survey of Japan, AIST), Tomohiro Toki(Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus), Narumi Takahashi(Research and Development Center for Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chair:Hiroshi Sato(School of Business Administration, Senshu University), Takehi Isse(Earthquake Research Institute)

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

[SCG64-18] Distributions of mantle heterogeneity across segment at southern segment of Central Indian Ridge

*Hiroshi SATO¹, Shiki MACHIDA², Ryoko SENDA³ (1.Senshu Univ., 2.Waseda Univ., 3.JAMSTEC)

Recent petrological and geochemical investigations of MORB at the southern segments of Central Indian Ridge (CIR) reveal the heterogeneous distributions of MORB-source mantle (Sato et al., 2015). Sato et al. (2015) concluded that MORB from CIR-S2 segment and off-ridge area at the CIR-S1 segment are depleted compositions than typical MORB. Furthermore, depletions based on trace element geochemistry of off-ridge MORB from CIR-S1 segment decrease toward present spreading ridge. Because off-ridge MORB was recovered from several dredge sites parallel to the flow line, these distributions might indicate spatial distributions of mantle heterogeneity beneath CIR-S1 segment.