Metamorphic and Structural Evolution of the Precambrian Basement in the Northern Prince Charles Mountains

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 56 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstract of the referenced paper: Thin mafic dykes emplaced in ca. 100 Ma granulite-facies basement and Permian Amery Group strata around Radok Lake, Northern Prince Charles Mountains, are h...

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Other Authors: STEPHENSON, NICHOLAS (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STEPHENSON, NICHOLAS (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
geoscientificInformation
STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
PALEOCLIMATE
LAND RECORDS
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
SOLID EARTH
ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS
petrography
mafic
dykes
FIELD SURVEYS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Amery
Prince Charles Mountains
Radok Lake
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/metamorphic-structural-evolution-charles-mountains/700251
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_56
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 56 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstract of the referenced paper: Thin mafic dykes emplaced in ca. 100 Ma granulite-facies basement and Permian Amery Group strata around Radok Lake, Northern Prince Charles Mountains, are high K/Na alkaline andesites or basalts. They include three petrographic groups, namely (1) plagioclase plus or minus olivine-phyric, (2) clinopyroxene plus or minus olivine-phyric and (3) aphyric dykes. Clionpyrozene and phenocrysts in group (2) dykes comprise low-P phenocrysts, xenocrysts of possible mantle derivation, and probably high-P cognate phenocrysts. Incompatible element rations separate the dykes into three or four groups (broadly though not exactly coinciding with the petrographic subdivision) probably representing separate magmas derived either from chemically dissimilar mantle sources, or by different degrees of melting of a source in which one or more phases rich in incompatible elements (eg phlogopite) persisted in the residua. The dykes have 10 Mg/ (Mg+Fe2+) ratios and Ni and Cr abundan ces too low for primary magmas derived from commonly envisaged uppedr mantle peridotite sources [with 100 Mg/(Mg+Fe)-89]. Instead, they could represent either primary magmas derived from relatively Fe-rich mantle, or be the products of pre-emplacement fractional crystallisation of olivine and clinopyroxene from more Mg-rich parental magmas. The high incompatible-element and REE abundances of the dykes suggest that their mantle sources were either undepleted or re-enriched, and that the degree of melting was probably small. It seems likely that this alkaline magmatic activity was related to the formation of the nearby Lambert Graben.

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