Metasomatised Xenoliths from Foster Crater, Antarctica: Implications for Lithospheric Structure and Processes beneath the Transantarctic Mountain Front

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Gamble, J. A., McGibbon, F., Kyle, P. R., Menzies, M. A., Kirsch, I.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1988
• Subjects: Continental Lithosphere: Where does the Crust End and the Mantle Begin?; Transantarctic Mountains; Foster Crater; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/Special_Volume/1/109; https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/Special_Volume.1.109

Xenoliths in basanite from Foster Crater in the foothills of the Transantarctic Mountains have been used to construct a model of the subcontinental lithosphere and lithospheric processes in this segment of Antarctica. The mafic and ultramafic xenoliths define two mineralogically, texturally and chem...