PETROCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE GNEISS FROM MOUNT PARDOE AND TONAGH ISLAND IN THE NAPIER COMPLEX, EAST ANTARCTICA

• Main Authors: タイノショウ, ヨシアキ, カガミ, ヒロオ, タカハシ, ユウヘイ, ヤマモト, コウシ, マエカワ, ヒロカズ, イイズミ, シゲル, オサナイ, ヤスヒト, ツチヤ, ノリヨシ, TAINOSHO, Yoshiaki, KAGAMI, Hiroo, TAKAHASHI, Yuhei, YAMAMOTO, Koshi, MAEKAWA, Hirokazu, IIZUMI, Shigeru, OSANAI, Yasuhito, TSUCHIYA, Noriyoshi
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1995
• Subjects: East Antarctica; Napier; Tonagh Island; Pardoe; Mount Pardoe; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2809/files/KJ00002368439.pdf; https://doi.org/10.15094/00002809; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2809

P(論文) The Napier Complex consists of high temperature granulite-facies rocks which are characterized by extremely old ages of about 4000Ma. Mount Pardoe and Tonagh Island are underlain by pyroxene-quartz-feldspar gneiss. The gneiss can be subdivided into acidic gneiss and basic gneiss. The two types of gneisses are intimately interlayered in many places. Chemical analyses of major elements for the gneisses revealed that the basic gneisses are characterized by high MgO (7-9%) and CaO (9-11%). In contrast, the acidic gneisses are low in MgO (0.4-1.6%) and CaO (1.0-2.5%). Both gneisses show evidence for Rb and K loss. Mineral compositions in the gneisses are also related to the two-gneiss types. Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratios of orthopyroxene of the basic gneisses are high (0.70-0.85), while those of the acidic gneisses have intermediate Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratios (0.35-0.55). Anorthite contents of mesoperthite in the acidic gneisses are high (An_<20-30>). Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratios of the garnet in the acidic gneisses from Mount Pardoe are slightly low (0.3-0.4) compared with those of the acidic gneisses from Tonagh Island (0.35-0.5). Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratios of ferromagnesian minerals and anorthite contents of plagioclase in the acidic gneiss of Mount Pardoe (mg : 0.3-0.5,An_<30-55>) are slightly low compared with those of Tonagh Island (mg : 0.45-0.6,An_<45-65>). The Sm-Nd whole-rock isochron age was determined for the acidic gneisses from Mount Pardoe. These acidic gneisses gave an age of 2516±274Ma with an initial ^<143>Nd/^<144>Nd ratio of 0.50914 (Y. TAINOSHO et al.; Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Geosci., 7,115,1994). Similar Sm-Nd whole-rock isochron ages (2458±61Ma) have obtained from Tonagh Island (M. OWADA et al.; Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Geosci., 7,122,1994). The ^<143>Nd/^<144>Nd ratio of the acidic gneiss is slightly high compared with that of the basic gneiss on Tonagh Island (0.5097) (M. OWADA et al.; Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Geosci., 7,122,1994). These differences between the whole rock, ...