Thermal evolution of the lithosphere in a rift environment as inferred from the geochemistry of mantle cumulates, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Authors: PERINELLI C, D.A.L.L.A.I. L., ARMIENTI, PIETRO
• Other Authors: Perinelli, C, Armienti, Pietro, D. A. L. L. A. I., L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; Browning; Browning Pass; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/147580; http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/4/665.full

Among the abundant mantle xenoliths carried by the Cenozoic alkaline basalts of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, we have studied a suite of clinopyroxene-rich cumulates collected at Browning Pass (Mt. Melbourne Volcanic Province), ranging in composition from wehrlites to clinopyroxenites. Clinopy...