Depleted mantle wedge and sediment fingerprint in unusual basalts from the Manihiki plateau, central Pacific Ocean: Comment and Reply: COMMENT

Abstract

[Ingle et al. (2007)][1] reported 40Ar/39Ar ages for Manihiki plateau rocks and suggested some of them were contemporaneous (~120 Ma) with lavas from the Ontong Java and Hikurangi plateaus, each some 2500 km distant ([Ingle et al., 2007][1], their Fig. 1). Critical examination of the radiometric