Thermal Evolution of the Lithosphere in a Rift Environment as Inferred from the Geochemistry of Mantle Cumulates, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Perinelli, Cristina, Armienti, Pietro, Dallai, Luigi
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2011
• Subjects: Original Papers; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Browning; Browning Pass; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/52/4/665; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egq099

Among the abundant mantle xenoliths carried by the Cenozoic alkaline basalts of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, we have studied a suite of clinopyroxene-rich cumulates collected at Browning Pass (Mt. Melbourne Volcanic Province), ranging in composition from wehrlites to clinopyroxenites. Clinopy...