Mariana Magmatic Arc

Hiyoshi Volcanic Complex and Iwo Jima: Bloomer, S. H., Stern, R. J., Fisk, E., and Geschwind, C. H. "Shoshonitic volcanism in the northern Mariana Arc: 1. Petrographic and major and trace element characteristics." J. Geophys. Res., 94, 4469-4496, 1989.

Ishizuka, O., Yuasa, M., Tamura, Y., Shukuno, H., Stern, R.J., Naka, J, Joshima, M., and Taylor, R.N., 2010. Migrating shoshonitic magmatism tracks Izu-Bonin- Mariana intra-oceanic arc rift propagation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 294, 111-122

Lin, P.-N., Stern, R. J., and Bloomer, S. H. "Shoshonitic Volcanism in the Northern Mariana Arc: 2. Large-Ion Lithophile and Rare Earth Element Abundances - Evidence for the Source of Incompatible Element Enrichments in Intra-Oceanic Arcs." J. Geophys. Res., 94, 4497-4514, 1989.

Meen, J.K., Stern, R.J., and Bloomer, S.H.,1998. Evidence for magma mixing in the Mariana arc system The Island Arc 7, 443-459.

Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Lin, P.-N., Ito, E., and Morris, J. 1988. Shoshonitic magmas in nascent arcs: New evidence from submarine volcanoes in the northern Marianas. Geology, 16, p. 426-430.

Stern, R. J., Smoot, N. C., and Rubin, M., 1984. Unzipping of the Volcano Arc, Japan." Tectonophysics, 102, p. 153-174.

Sun, C.-H., Stern, R.J., Yoshida, T., and Kimura, J.-I., 1998. Fukutoku-oka-no-ba Volcano: A new perspective on the Alkalic Volcano Province in the Izu-Bonin- Mariana arc The Island Arc 7, 432-442.

Kasuga cross-chain (KXN): Stern, R. J., Jackson, M. C., Fryer, P., and Ito, E. "O, Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic composition of the Kasuga Cross Chain in the Mariana Arc: A new perspective on the K-h relationship." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 119, 459-476, 1993 Agrigan. Stern, R. J., 1978. Agrigan: An introduction to the geology of an active volcano in the Northern Mariana Island Arc." Bull. Volc., 41, p.1,

Stern, R. J., 1979. On the origin of andesite in the Northern Mariana Island Arc: Implications from Agrigan. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 68, p. 207,

Pagan Tamura, Y., Ishizuka, O., Stern, R. J., Nunokawa, A., Shukuno, H., Kawabata, H., Hirahara, Y., Chang, Q., Miyazaki, T., Kimura, J.-I., Embley, R.W., Nichols, A., Tatsumi, Y., 2014. Mission Immiscible: Distinct subduction components generate two primary magmas of Pagan Volcano, Mariana arc. J. Petrology 55, 63-101.

Guguan Stern, R.J., Kohut, E.J., Bloomer, S.H., Leybourne, M., Fouch, M., and Vervoort, J. 2006. Subduction factory processes beneath the Guguan Cross-chain, Mariana Arc: no role for sediments, are serpentinites important? Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 151, 202-221.

South Sarigan (SSa) Embley, R.W., Y. Tamura, S.G. Merle, T. Sato, O. Ishizuka, W.W. Chadwick Jr., D.A. Wiens, P. Shore, and R.J. Stern. 2014. Eruption of South Sarigan Seamount, Northern Mariana Islands: Insights into hazards from submarine volcanic eruptions. Oceanography 27(2):24–31.

Anatahan Wade, J., Plank, T., Stern, R.J., Tollstrup, D., Gill, J., O’Leary, J., Moore, R.B., Trusdell, F., Fisher, T.P., and Hilton, D.R. 2005. The May 2003 eruption of Anatahan volcano, Mariana Islands: Geochemical Evolution of a Silicic Island Arc Volcano. J. Volcanology and Geothermal Research 146, 1-3, 139-170.

East Diamante (ED): Hein, J.R., de Ronde, C.E.J., Koski, R.A., Ditchburn, R.G., Mizell, K., Tamura, Y., Stern, R.J., Conrad, T.A., Ishizuka, O., Leybourne, M.I., 2014. Layered Hydrothermal Barite-Sulfide Mounds, East Diamante Caldera, Mariana Volcanic Arc. Economic Geology 109, 2179-2206.

Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Ishizuka, O., Shukano, Bloomer, S.H., Embley, R.W., Leybourne, M., Kawabata, H., Nunokawa, A., Nichols, A., Kohut, E., and Pujana, I. in press. Volcanoes of the Diamante Cross-Chain: Evidence for a mid-crustal Felsic Magma Body beneath the southern Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc. Go meź - Tuena, A., Straub, S. M. & Zellmer, G. F. (eds) Orogenic Andesites and Crustal Growth. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 385, 235-255

Esmeralda Bank (EB) Stern, R. J., and Bibee, L. D. "Esmeralda Bank: Geochemistry of an active submarine volcano in the Mariana Island Arc." Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 86, p. 159, 1984.

West Rota Dixon, T. H., and Stern, R. J., 1983. Petrology and geochemistry of submarine volcanoes in the Southern Mariana Arc." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 94, p. 1159.

Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Embley, R.W., Ishizuku, O., Merle, S., Basu, N.K., Kawabata, H., and Bloomer, S.H., 2008. Evolution of West Rota Volcano, an extinct submarine volcano in the Southern Mariana Arc: Evidence from sea floor morphology, remotely operated vehicle observations and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology. The Island Arc 17, 70-89

NW Rota-1 (NWR1) Embley, R.W., Chadwick, Jr., W.W., Baker, E.T., Butterfield, D.A., Resing, J.A., de Ronde, C.E.J., Tunniclife, V., Lupton, J.E., Juniper, K.S., Rubin, K.H., Stern, R.J., Lebon, G.T., Nakamura, K.-I., Merle, S.G., Hein, J.R., Wiens, D.P., and Tamura, Y. 2006. Eruptive Activity at a Submarine Arc Volcano. Nature 441, 494-497.

Tamura, Y., Ishizuka, O., Shukuno, H., Kawabata, H., Stern, R.J., Embley, R.W., Tatsumi, Y., and Nunokawa, A., 2011. Two Primary Basalt Magmatypes from Northwest Rota-1 Volcano, Mariana Arc. J. Petrology 52, 1143-1183.

Chaife (C) Kohut, E.J., Stern, R.J., Kent, A.J.R., Nielsen, R.L., Bloomer, S.H., and Leybourne, M. 2006. Evidence for Decompression Melting in the Southern Mariana Arc from High-Mg Lavas and Melt Inclusions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 152, 201-221

Tracey (T) Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Masuda, H., Fryer, P., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., and Bloomer, S.H., 2013. How does the Mariana Arc end in the south? The Island Arc 22, 133-148.

Alphabet Seamounts (AS): Stern, R.J., Tamura, Y., Masuda, H., Fryer, P., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., and Bloomer, S.H., 2013. How does the Mariana Arc end in the south? The Island Arc 22, 133-148.

Fina Nagu Volcanic Complex (FNVC) Brounce, M.N., Kelley, K., Stern, R. J., Martinez, F., and Cottrell, E., 2016. The Fina Nagu Volcanic Complex: Unusual submarine arc volcanism in the rapidly deforming southern Mariana margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006457

Mariana Trough (Backarc basin) studies

Southern Mariana Trough (SMT) Gribble, R. F., Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Stüben, D., O’Hearn, T., and Newman, S. “MORB mantle and subduction components interact to generate basalts in the Southern Mariana Trough Back-Arc Basin”, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 2153-2166, 1996.

Central Graben (CG): Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Martinez, F., Yamazaki, T., and Harrison, T. M., 1996. The composition of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle in the Mariana Trough: A first report, The Island Arc, 5, 354-372.

Ohara, Y., Stern, R.J., Ishii, T., Yurimoto, H., and Yamazaki, T., 2002. Peridotites from the Mariana Trough: First look at the Mantle beneath an active Backarc Basin. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 143, 1-18.

Northern Mariana Trough (NMT): Gribble, R. F., Stern, R. J., Newman, S., Bloomer, S. H., and O’Hearn, T., 1998. Chemical and isotopic composition of lavas from the Northern Mariana Trough: Implications for magmagenesis in Back-arc Basins. J. Petrology, 39, 122-154.

Ikeda, Y., Nagao, K., Stern, R.J., Yuasa, M., and Newman, S., 1998. Noble gases in pillow basalt glasses from the northern Mariana Trough back-arc basin. The Island Arc 7, 471-478.

Stern, R. J., Lin, P.-N., Morris, J., Jackson, M. C., Fryer, P., Bloomer, S. H., and Ito, E., 1990. Enriched back-arc basin basalts from the northern Mariana Trough: Implications for the evolution of back-arc basins." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 100, 210-225.

Mariana Trough general: Pearce, J.A., and Stern, R.J., 2006. The Origin of Back-arc Basin Magmas: Trace Element and Isotopic Perspectives. In Christie D.M., Fisher, C.R., Lee, S.-M., and Givens, S. (eds.) Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions. AGU monograph 166, Washington DC, p. 63-86.

Woodhead, J., Stern, R.J., Pearce, J., Hergt, J.,and Vervoort, J., 2012. Hf-Nd isotope variation in Mariana Trough basalts: the importance of 'ambient mantle' in the interpretation of subduction zone magmas. Geology 40, 539-542.

Forearc Studies

Southern Mariana Forearc: Michibayashi, K., Ohara, Y., Stern, R.J., Fryer, P., Kimura, J.-I., Tasaka, M., Harigane, Y., Ishii, T., 2009. Peridotites derived from a ductile shear zone within backarc lithospheric mantle, southern Mariana Trench: results of a Shinkai 6500 dive. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 10, doi:10.1029/2008GC002197

Reagan, M.K., Ishizuka, O., Stern, R.J., Kelley, K.A., Ohara, Y., Blichert-Toft J., Bloomer, S.H., Cash, J., Fryer, P., Hanan, B.B., Hickey-Vargas, R., Ishii, T., Kimura, J.I., Peate, D.W., Rowe, M.C., and Woods, M. 2010. Fore-arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 11, Q03X12, doi:10.1029/2009GC002871

Reagan, M.K., McClelland, W.C., Girard, G., Goff, K.R. , Peate, D.W., Ohara, Y., and Stern, R. J., 2013. The geology of the southern Mariana fore-arc crust: implications for the scale of Eocene volcanism in the western Pacific. Earth and Planetary Research Letters 380, 41-51.

Stern, R. J., Morris, J., Bloomer, S. H., and Hawkins, Jr., J. W. "The source of metasomatic fluids and the generation of arc melts: Trace element and radiogenic isotope evidence from Eocene boninites, Mariana forearc." Geochim. Cosmochim, Acta, 55, 1467-1481, 1991.

Stern, R.J., and Smoot, N.C., 1998. A bathymetric overview of the Mariana forearc. The Island Arc 7, 525-540.Shinkai Seep

SE Mariana Forearc Rift (SEMFR)

Ribeiro, J.M., Stern, R.J., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., Merle, S.G., Kelley, K., Anthony, E. Y., Ren, M., Ohara, Y., Reagan, M., Girard, G., and Bloomer, S.H., 2013. Geodynamic evolution of a forearc rift in the southernmost Mariana Arc. The Island Arc 22, 453-476.

Ribeiro, J., Stern, R. J., Kelley, K., Martinez, F., Ishizuka, O., and Manton, W. I., 2013. Nature and distribution of slab-derived fluids and mantle sources beneath the SE Mariana Forearc Rift. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14, doi: 10.1002/ggge.20244

Ribeiro, J.M., Stern, R.J., Kelley, K.A., Shaw, A.M., Martinez, F., and Ohara, Y 2015. Composition of the slab-derived fluids released beneath forearcs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 418, 136–148.

Shinkai Seep (SSe)

Ohara, Y., Reagan, M.K., Fujikura, K., Watanabe, H., Michibayashi, K., Ishii, T., Stern, R.J., Pujana, I. Martinez, F., Giraud, G., Ribeiro, J., Brounce, M., Komori, N., Kino, M. 2012. A serpentinite-hosted ecosystem in the Southern Mariana Forearc. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1112005109

Okumura,T., Watanabe, H., Chen, C., Ohnishi, Y., Yamanaka, T., Sakai, S. Bloomer, S.H., Pujana, I., Stern, R.J., Ishii, T., Takai, K., Ohara, Y. 2016. The world’s deepest brucite-carbonate chimneys at a serpentinite-hosted system, the Shinkai Seep Field, Southern Mariana Forearc. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17 doi:10.1002/2016GC006449

Stern, R.J., Minghua Ren, Katherine A. Kelley, Yasuhiko Ohara, Fernando Martinez, Sherman H. Bloomer,. 2014. Basaltic volcaniclastics from the Challenger Deep forearc segment, Mariana convergent margin: Implications for tectonics and magmatism of the southernmost Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc. The Island Arc 23, 368- 382.

Challenger Deep:

Gvirtzman, Z., and Stern, R.J., 2004. Bathymetry of Mariana Trench-Arc System and Formation of the Challenger Deep as a Consequence of Weak Plate Coupling. Tectonics, TC2011, doi:10.1029/2003TC001581, 2004

Mariana General:

Arculus, R. J., Gill, J. B., Cambray, H., Chen, W., and Stern, R. J., 1995. Geochemical evolution of Arc Systems in the Western Pacific: the Ash and Turbidite Record recovered by drilling, in B. Taylor and J. Natland (eds.) Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific, Geophysical Monograph 88, American Geophysical Union, p. 45-65.

Bloomer, S. H., Stern, R. J., and Smoot, N. C., 1989. Physical Volcanology of the Submarine Mariana and Volcano Arcs. Bull. Volcanology, 51, 210-224.

Bloomer, S. H., Taylor, B., MacLeod, C. J., Stern, R. J., Fryer, P., Hawkins, J. W., and Johnson, L. , 1995. Early arc volcanism and the Ophiolite Problem: A Perspective from Drilling in the Western Pacific,” in B. Taylor and J. Natland (eds.) Active Margins and Marginal Basins of the Western Pacific, Geophysical Monograph 88, American Geophysical Union, p. 1-30.

Hein, J.R., Schulz, M.S., Dunham, R., Stern, R.J., and Bloomer, S.H. 2008. Diffuse- flow distal hydrothermal mineralization along the active Mariana and southern Izu-Bonin arc system, West Pacific. J Geophys. Res. (Solid Earth) 113, B08S14, doi:10.1029/2007JB005432

Ikeda, Y., Nagao, K., Ishii, T., Matsumoto, D., Stern, R.J., Kagami, H., Arima, M., and Bloomer, S. H., 2016. Contributions of slab fluid and sediment melt components to magmatism in the Mariana Arc-Trough system: Evidence from geochemical compositions and Sr, Nd, and noble gas isotope systematics. The Island Arc 25, 253-273.

Ito, E., and Stern, R. J., 1986. Oxygen- and strontium-isotopic investigations of subduction zone volcanism: The case of the Volcano Arc and the Mariana Island Arc." Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 76, p. 312-320.

Ito, E., Stern, R.J., and Douthitt, C., 2003. Insights into Operation of the “Subduction Factory” from the Oxygen Isotopic Values of Southern Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc’ The Island Arc v. 12, 383-397.

Lee, J., Stern, R. J., and Bloomer, S. H. 1995. Forty million years of magmatic evolution in the Mariana Arc: The tephra glass record, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 17,671-17,687.

Lee, J., and Stern, R. J. 1998. Glass inclusions in Mariana Arc Phenocrysts: A new perspective on magmatic evolution in a typical intra-oceanic arc. J. Geology, 106, 19-33

Newman, S., Stolper, E., and Stern, R., 2000. H2O and CO2 in magmas from the Mariana arc and back-arc systems” GeoChemistry, GeoPhysics, GeoSystems, 1, paper number 1999GC000027; http://gcubed.magnet.fsu.edu/

Stern, R.J., Fouch, M.J., and Klemperer, S., 2003. An Overview of the Izu-Bonin- Mariana Subduction Factory in J. Eiler and M. Hirschmann (eds.) Inside the Subduction Factory, Geophysical Monograph 138, American Geophysical Union, 175-222.

Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., 1992. Subduction zone infancy: Examples from the Eocene Izu-Bonin-Mariana and Jurassic California Arcs." Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 104, 1621-1636.

Stern, R. J., Bloomer, S. H., Lin, P.-N., and Smoot, N. C., 1989. Submarine arc volcanism in the southern Mariana Arc as an ophiolite analogue." Tectonophysics, 168, 151-170.

Stern, R. J., and Ito, E., 1983. Trace element and isotopic constraints on the source of magmas in the active Volcano and Mariana Island Arcs, Western Pacific." J. Volc. Geotherm. Res. IAVCEI Special Volume, 18, p. 461.

Sun, C.-H., and Stern, R.J., 2001. Genesis of Mariana Shoshonites: Contribution of the ‘Subduction Component’’ Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth 106, 589-608.