Plutonic processes in transitional oceanic plateau crust: Structure, age and emplacement of the South Rallier du Baty laccolith, Kerguelen Islands
International audience The syenitic rocks of South Rallier du Baty Intrusive Complex (SRBIC) represent in- trusions into the oceanic plateau basalts of the south-western Kerguelen Islands. The SRBIC was previously interpreted as a typical ring complex due to magma emplace- ment with cauldron subside...
Published in: | Terra Nova |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2020
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Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03024359 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03024359/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03024359/file/2020-Ponthusetal-SRBIC%20%281%29.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12471 |
Summary: | International audience The syenitic rocks of South Rallier du Baty Intrusive Complex (SRBIC) represent in- trusions into the oceanic plateau basalts of the south-western Kerguelen Islands. The SRBIC was previously interpreted as a typical ring complex due to magma emplace- ment with cauldron subsidence. Our new structural and geochronological data reveal that it is a laccolith built between 11.6 and 7.9 Ma by successive injections of magma sheets around the crust–mantle boundary, with an average injection rate between 0.8 and 1.4 × 10−4 km3/year. These results establish strong similarities between the SRBIC, the only recorded example of a felsic laccolith in an oceanic intraplate setting, and many continental plutons emplaced in various geodynamic setting. The SRBIC thus has the characteristics of a continental plutonic complex emplaced in an oceanic plateau crust. We postulate the critical parameter relevant to causing such similari- ties and plutonic magmatism is crustal thickness. |
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