Representative and whole rock analyses of rocks from Filchnerfjella, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Owada, Masaaki, Baba, Sotaro, Läufer, Andreas, Elvevold, Synnøve, Shiraishi, Kazuyuki, Jacobs, Joachim
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2003
• Subjects: Dronning Maud Land; Antarctica; Filchnerfjella; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; ROCK; Rock sample; SPP1158; Antarc*; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Polar geoscience; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.849089; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.849089

The geological history of Filchnerfjella and surrounding areas (2°E to 8°E) in central Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica, is constructed from metamorphic and igneous petrology, and structural investigations. The geology of Filchner-fjella consists mainly of metamorphic rocks accompanied by intrusi...