Geochemistry of Palaeozoic–Mesozoic Pacific rim orogenic magmatism, Thurston Island area, West Antarctica

Thurston Island, and the adjacent Eights Coast and Jones Mountains, record Pacific margin magmatism from Carboniferous to Late Cretaceous times. The igneous rocks form a uniformly calc-alkaline, high-alumina, dominantly metaluminous suite; some relatively fractionated granitoids are mildly peralumin...

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Published in:Antarctic Science
Main Authors: Leat, Philip T., Storey, Bryan C., Pankhurst, Robert J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1993
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102093000380
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102093000380