Temporal, isotopic and spatial relations of early paleozoic gondwana-margin arc magmatism, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Goodge, John W, Fanning, Christopher, Norman, Marc, Bennett, Victoria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Nimrod; Nimrod Glacier; Pacific; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/67004

The Cambrian-Ordovician Ross Orogeny in Antarctica produced a voluminous magmatic belt composed mainly of post-orogenic granitoids. This magmatic belt has strong calc-alkaline characteristics reflecting a convergent-margin origin associated with subduction of paleo-Pacific oceanic lithosphere beneat...