Lithium, boron, and lead isotope systematics of glass inclusions in olivines from Hawaiian lavas: evidence for recycled components in the Hawaiian plume Katsura Kobayashi, Ryoji Tanaka, Takuya Moriguti, Kenji Shimizu, Eizo Nakamura * The Pheasant Memorial Laboratory, Institute for Study of Earth’s Interior, Okayama University, Misasa, Tottori, 682-0193, Japan Received 31 January 2004; received in revised form 2 July 2004 Abstract Lithium (Li), boron (B), and lead (Pb) isotopic compositions of glass inclusions in olivine phenocrysts from Hawaiian lavas, (Kilauea Iki, Mauna Loa, and Koolau volcano) were measured by high mass resolution ion probe to search for possible signatures of recycled materials in the Hawaiian plume. In order to measure the isotopic compositions, a set of synthetic glass standards with matrices similar to those of the target glass inclusions was prepared. Isotopic variations among these synthetic standards were produced by additions of spikes, and their isotopic compositions were determined by TIMS. Using this set of standards, correction factors for instrumental mass fractionation for Li, B, and Pb isotope measurement were determined with internal precisions of b1.2x, b1.6x, and b0.8% (2r) uncertainties for Li, B, and Pb, respectively. Twenty-eight glass inclusions were measured after homogenization to eliminate dendritic crystals. These glass inclusions showed isotopic variations from 10.2x to +8.4x for y 7 Li, from 10.5x to +5.2x for y 11 B, from 0.7994 to 0.8909 for 207 Pb/ 206 Pb, and from 1.989 to 2.139 for 208 Pb/ 206 Pb, which are considerably larger than those for whole rocks. This suggests that the Hawaiian lavas are mixtures of melts derived from isotopically distinct sources, and that glass inclusions better preserve information regarding source heterogeneity than do whole rocks. In particular, significantly low y 7 Li and y 11 B values for the Mauna Loa and Koolau samples indicate an isotopically blightQ Li and B source, perhaps containing recycled materials that experienced dehydration during subduction. The extremely low Pb isotope signature, which corresponds to HIMU, also suggests some contribution from recycled materials to the generation of the Hawaiian magma. Our results suggest that recycled materials, which experienced near-surface alteration and then dehydration during subduction, played an important role in creating geochemical heterogeneity in the Hawaiian lavas. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Li–B–Pb isotope systematics; glass inclusion; SIMS; Hawaiian lavas; Crust-mantle recycling 0009-2541/$ - see front matter D 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.08.050 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 858 43 1215; fax: +81 858 43 3745. E-mail address: eizonak@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp (E. Nakamura). Chemical Geology 212 (2004) 143 – 161 www.elsevier.com/locate/chemgeo