Granites of Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land: anorogenic magmatism related to Antarctic-New Zealand rifting

• Published in: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Main Authors: Weaver, S.D., Adams, C.J., Pankhurst, R.J., Gibson, I.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Royal Society of Edinburgh 1992
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; New Zealand; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Edward VII Peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctica; W. Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519103/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263593300007963

Syenogranites and monzogranites of Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land, represent magmatism associated with continental rifting and the separation of New Zealand from W Antarctica in the mid-Cretaceous. These coarse-grained, leucocratic, subsolvus biotite granites occur as five small plutons cutti...