Petrogenesis of the Flood Basalts Forming the Northern Kerguelen Archipelago: Implications for the Kerguelen Plume

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Yang, Huai-Jen, Frey, Frederick A., Weis, Dominique, Giret, Andre, Pyle, Doug, Michon, Gilbert
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1998
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; Indian; Kerguelen; Southeast Indian Ridge; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/39/4/711; https://doi.org/10.1093/petroj/39.4.711

The thick, >20 km, crust of the Kerguelen Archipelago formed as the tectonic setting of the Kerguelen Plume changed from an oceanic ridge-centered location at 43 Ma to its present location beneath the Antarctic plate. The uppermost crust is dominantly flood basalt with a thickness of up to 10 km....