a component of Paleozoic oceanic crust produces the limited range Osmium concentrations and isotopic signatures were measured in in Os isotopic signatures observed in the Madeira and Canary Island 28 primarily Holocene basalts (22 of which have been analyzed basalts despite a large range in 206 Pb/ 204 Pb isotopic composition. for Sr-Nd-Pb isotope composition), two carbonatites and two mantle xenoliths from the Canary Islands, Selvagen Grande and Madeira in the eastern North Atlantic. 187 Os/ 188 Os ratios in the basalts range from 0•129 to 0•183. The Os isotope systematics indicate that the basalts fall into three petrogenetic groups: (1) a
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