Petrography of a discordant metabasite from Skallen, Lutzow-Holmbukta, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Masaru Yoshida, Nobuyuki Aikawa
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University 1983
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Skallen; Antarc*; Antarctica; Enderby Land; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1474; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001474/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1474&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

A discordant metabasite from Skallen is an olivine tholeiite resembling petrochemically with some of the Proterozoic Amundsen dikes of Enderby Land. Field occurrence, mineral association, and microstructure including zoning structure of minerals are not incompatible with the polymetamorphic interpre...