Tectonic setting and geochemistry of Miocene alkalic basalts from the Jones Mountains, West Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Hole, M. J., Storey, B. C., LeMasurier, W. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1994
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Thurston; Thurston Island; Jones Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516520/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102094000118

Within the Jones Mountains, which form part of the Thurston Island crustal block, up to 700 m of Miocene (c. 10 Ma) pillow basalt and palagonitized volcaniclastic rocks unconformably overlie Jurassic granitic basement and Cretaceous volcanic rocks and dykes. New geochemical analyses demonstrate the...