Metamorphic and thermal history of a fore-arc basin: the Fossil Bluff Group, Alexander Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Petrology
• Main Authors: Miller, S., MacDonald, D.I.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2004
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Alexander Island; Fossil Bluff; Himalia Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica; Antarctica Journal
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12291/; http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/7/1453.full

The Himalia Ridge Formation (Fossil Bluff Group), Alexander Island is a 2.2-km-thick sequence of Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous conglomerates, sandstones and mudstones, derived from an andesitic volcanic arc and deposited in a fore-arc basin. The metamorphic and thermal history of the formation has...