Archean granulites from Mt.Riiser-Larsen in Enderby Land, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Yoichi Motoyoshi, Hiroharu Matsueda
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University/Institute of Mining Geology,Mining College, Akita University 1984
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Riiser-Larsen; Napier; 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=1646; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001646/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1646&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Mt. Riiser-Larsen in Enderby Land, which is a part of the Napier Complex in the East Antarctic Shield, is underlain by the Archean granulites formed under the pyroxene granulite-facies condition. Characteristic mineral associations of sapphirine+quartz, orthopyroxene+sillimanite+quartz and garnet+si...