Kaersutite-bearing xenoliths and megacrysts in volcanic rocks from the Funk Seamount in the southwest Indian Ocean

• Main Authors: Arch M. Reid, Anton P. Le Roex
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: kaersutite; amphibole; xenolith; Funk Seamount; Indian Ocean; Indian; Marion Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.616.6778; http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_52/52-366-359.pdf

Eight samples (seven volcanic rocks and one quartz sandstone) have been dredged from the Funk Seamount, 60 km NW of Marion Island in the southwest Indian Ocean Oat. 46 ~ 15 ' S, long. 37 ~ 20 ' E). The volcanic rocks are fine-grained vesicular basanitoids and glass-rich volcanic breccias g...