Origin of zeolites from the Kirkpatrick basalt, Solo Nunatak, Antarctica: significance to the petrogenesis of basalt

• Main Author: Mason, Scott E.
• Other Authors: Faure, Gunter
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The Ohio State University 1984
• Subjects: Solo Nunatak; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/78689

The Kirkpatrick Basalt has an anomalously high initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio which varies from 0.709 to 0.714. One possible cause for the Sr isotopic anomaly is the alteration of the basalt by the solutions which precipitated zeolites in the vesicles of the basalt. In this study, zeolites from the Kirkpat...