J. Blichert-toft et F. Albarede, Hf isotopic compositions of the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project core and the source mineralogy of Hawaiian basalts, GEOPHYS R L, 26(7), 1999, pp. 935-938
A large suite of Mauna Kea basalts from the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Proj
ect cure show a progressive enrichment in radiogenic Hf with time (epsilon(
Hf) = +11.4 to +13.1) well-correlated with the increasingly radiogenic char
acter of Nd. The alkali basalts erupted at the termination of the Mauna Kea
stage are isotopically indistinguishable from the underlying and intercala
ted tholeiites. The overlying Mauna Loa flows show the return of a less dep
leted character (EKE = +10.5 to +11.6). The Hf and Nd isotopic compositions
of the two volcanoes are distinct, even though they may marginally overlap
. The isotopic succession can be interpreted with the concentrically zoned
plume model of Hauri et al. [1994, 1996] and Lassiter et al. [1996]. Compar
ing the Lu/Hf and Sm/Nd ratios of the HSDP basalts with those inferred from
the isotopic properties of their mantle source and the mineral composition
s deduced from literature mineral partitioning data indicates that the basa
lts can be derived by extraction of 10-15 percent melt from a garnet-perido
tite residue.