Geochemistry of Palaeozoic–Mesozoic Pacific rim orogenic magmatism, Thurston Island area, West Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Leat, Philip T., Storey, Bryan C., Pankhurst, Robert J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1993
• Subjects: West Antarctica; Pacific; New Zealand; Thurston; Thurston Island; Jones Mountains; Eights Coast; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517870/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102093000380

Thurston Island, and the adjacent Eights Coast and Jones Mountains, record Pacific margin magmatism from Carboniferous to Late Cretaceous times. The igneous rocks form a uniformly calc-alkaline, high-alumina, dominantly metaluminous suite; some relatively fractionated granitoids are mildly peralumin...