Pervasive, tholeiitic refertilisation and heterogeneous metasomatism in Northern Victoria Land lithospheric mantle (Antarctica)

• Published in: Lithos
• Main Authors: Pelorosso, B., Bonadiman, C., Coltorti, Massimo, Faccini, B., Melchiorre, Massimiliano, Ntaflos, T., Grégoire, Michel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Garnet signature; Mantle xenoliths; Tholeiitic refertilisation; Antarctic; Baker Rocks; Greene; Greene Point; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/130169; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2016.01.032

The petrology of peridotite xenoliths in the Cenozoic volcanics from Greene Point (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica) provides new constraints on the characterisation of the lithospheric mantle beneath the West Antarctic Rift.Based on mineral major and trace element models, this mantle domain is pr...