Focussed hydrothermal alteration in upper crustal oceanic faults on Macquarie Island

• Main Author: Lewis, SJ
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Hydrothermal alteration; Geology; Structural; Faults (Geology); Caroline Creek; Pacific; Southern Ocean; Wall Rocks; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20655/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20655/1/whole_LewisStevenJohn2007_thesis.pdf; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20655/2/whole_LewisStevenJohn2007Vol2_thesis.pdf

Macquarie Island is an uplifted exposure of oceanic lithosphere lying deep within the Southern Ocean, less than ten kilometres east of the dextral transpressional boundary which separates the Indo-Australian and Pacific plates (54° 30' S, 158° 55' E). The island is a geological oddity; ess...