Ce isotope measurements reveal the role of recycled sediments and the origin of the temporal variability of the Hawaiian plume source

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Andreas Stracke, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 413928377

Final Report Abstract

In summary, all anticipated goals fo the project have been accomplished. The application of a method for high-precision Ce isotope measurements, which has been developed as part of a former DFG project, has resulted in the anticipated novel constraints on the composition of the Hawaiian plume source. This study has contributed to the training of a PhD student and forms part of his award-winning thesis at the University of South Carolina, USA, and has promoted transfer of knowledge and researchers between the University of South Carolina and the WWU Münster.

Publications

• (2019). Cerium-Hf-Nd-Sr-Pb isotope constraints on the Azores source composition and plume-rift interaction. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21), EGU conference, 2019
  Beguelin, P., Bizimis, M., Willig, M., Stracke, A., Beier, C., & Turner, S.
  
• (2020). Cerium Isotope Constraints on Hawaiian Mantle Sources. In Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2020, 155
  Béguelin P, Bizimis M, Stracke A & Willig M
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.46427/gold2020.155)