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The Complex Vertical Motion of Intraplate Oceanic Islands Assessed in Santiago Island, Cape Verde

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Dated paleosea level markers and eustatic sea level changes are necessary but not sufficient information to calculate vertical motion rates on oceanic islands. Therefore, we use a procedure in which we work progressively back in time to incorporate the more recent vertical motion rates implied by the youngest paleoshorelines into the vertical motion history of all older shorelines. Specifically, we calculate the time‐averaged vertical motion rates required to explain the present‐day elevations of the dated sequence of paleoshorelines on Santiago volcanic island (Cape Verde). We thus obtain a vertical motion history consisting of time‐averaged vertical motion rates spanning the five intervening periods between paleoshoreline formation and the present day: (1) 5.06 to 3.29 Ma—seamount growth or island subsidence because all the rocks in this period are submarine; (2) fast uplift (approximately 0.96 mm/a) from 3.29 to 2.87 Ma, mostly responsible for putting submarine lavas currently close to 410 m altitude; (3) relatively fast subsidence (approximately −0.11 mm/a) between 2.87 and 2.18 Ma; (4) stagnation from 2.18 to 0.811 Ma; and (5) relatively fast uplift (approximately 0.14 mm/a) between 0.811 and 0 Ma. We numerically tested top‐down (volcanic loading) and bottom‐up (lithosphere thinning, underplating, and mantle plume) mechanisms to explain the inferred vertical movements, and we conclude that volcanic loading and crustal underplating are capable of producing the observed subsidence and uplift, respectively.
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hal-03004908 , version 1 (13-11-2020)

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F. o. O Marques, A. Hildenbrand, H. Zeyen, C. Cunha, S. s. S Victória. The Complex Vertical Motion of Intraplate Oceanic Islands Assessed in Santiago Island, Cape Verde. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020, 21 (3), ⟨10.1029/2019GC008754⟩. ⟨hal-03004908⟩
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