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in Detroit Seamount basalts. Unit 14 magma mixing does suggest, however, that<br />

subtle variations in partial melting or source compositions do occur over relatively<br />

short time spans but may be easily overlooked in whole-rock compositional studies.<br />

I suggest this variation is consistent with subtle variations in partial melting of<br />

a heterogeneous mantle source that consisted of relatively depleted and relatively<br />

enriched components (cf. [50, 72, 119]) Subtle variations in partial melting are<br />

consistent with enhanced mantle flow and complex mantle dynamics in the near<br />

ridge hotspot environment as discussed by Pearce [114]. The nature of the depleted<br />

component in Detroit Seamount basalts is prominent in tholeiitic basalts from Site<br />

884, and perhaps most prominent in the cm-size plagioclase phenocrysts. These<br />

large crystals have low Sr parent magmas suggesting they were less evolved than<br />

their host basalt. A fruitful continuation of this research would be to conduct Sr<br />

and Pb isotope studies on these large crystals by in-situ microdrilling (e.g., [39])<br />

or plagioclase separation (e.g., [16]).<br />

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