MINERALOGY OF THE SYENITIC ROCKS FROM THE YAMATO AND THE SØR RONDANE MOUNTAINS, EAST ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: オオバ タカノブ, シライシ カズユキ, Takanobu OBA, Kazuyuki SHIRAISHI
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ABSTRACT 1989
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Yamato; Sør-Rondane; Sør Rondane Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2603; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00002603/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=2603&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Chemical variations of amphiboles in syenitic rocks from the northern Yamato and the central Sør Rondane Mountains, Antarctica, were investigated, based on petrography and experimental results. The Yamato Mountains are made up of late Proterozoic to early Paleozoic high grade regional metamorphic rocks, syenitic and ganitic rocks (K. SHIRAISHI et al. : Mem. Natl Inst. Polar Res., Spec. Issue, 28,183,1982). In the northern Yamato Mountains, dominant clinopyroxene syenite occurs in the stratigraphically higher section of the two-pyroxene syenite layers.It is worth noting that bluish green hornblende which is close to edenite end member, occurs in the clinopyroxene syenite (Nos. Y80F3 and 73120904). The hornblende coexists with small amounts of biotite, clinopyroxene, perthite, albite and ilmenite. Dominant ferromagnesian mineral is subhedral bluish green hornblende. Previous experiment suggests that edenite end member is unstable under the vapor pressure beyond 5kbar. The composition of amphibole shifts to tremolite-pargasite join from edenite under the high vapor pressure. A preliminary synthesized experiment for edenite suggests that the water vapor pressure for edenite is lower than that for hornblende under the same P-T conditions (T. OBA, unpublished data). The Sør Rodane Mountains are underlain by various kinds of upper amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphic rocks, possibly of late Proterozoic age, followed by several stages of plutonism. In the oldest stage of three syenite intrusion stages, the largest body of layered syenite has a heterogeneous appearance in a mesoscopic scale. In the characteristic dark mafic layers and the younger leucocratic syenite (85012101A), constituent minerals are K-feldspar, bluish green hornblende, bluish green clinopyroxene, biotite, quartz and plagioclase. In the leucocratic layer (85012103C) of the rhythmic layered syenite, albite occurs along grain boundaries of orthoclase whereas it occurs as very thin films around orthoclase in the mafic layer (85012103B). In the ...