Isotopic composition and major and trace element concentrations of mafic rocks obtained from western Dronning Maud Land ...

• Main Authors: Grosch, Eugene G, Bisnath, Avinash, Frimmel, Hartwig E, Board, W S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.847989; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847989

On the basis of new bulk major and trace element (including REE) as well as Sm-Nd and Rb-Sr isotope data, used in conjunction with available geochronological data, a post-tectonic mafic igneous province and four groups of pre- to syntectonic amphibolite are distinguished in the polymetamorphic Maud Belt of western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Protoliths of the Group 1 amphibolites are interpreted as volcanic arc mafic intrusions with Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic Nd model ages and depletion in Nb and Ta. Isotopic and lithogeochemical characteristics of this earliest group of amphibolite indicate that the Maud Belt was once an active continental volcanic arc. The most likely position of this arc, for which a late Mesoproterozoic age (c. 1140 Ma) is indicated by available U-Pb single-zircon age data, was on the southeastern margin of the Kaapvaal-Grunehogna Craton. The protoliths of Group 2 amphibolites are attributed to the 1110 Ma Borgmassivet-Umkondo thermal event on the basis of comparable Nd model ... : Supplement to: Grosch, Eugene G; Bisnath, Avinash; Frimmel, Hartwig E; Board, W S (2007): Geochemistry and tectonic setting of mafic rocks in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica: implications for the geodynamic evolution of the Proterozoic Maud Belt. Journal of the Geological Society, 164(2), 465-475 ...