Antarctic Peninsula granitoid petrogenesis: A case study from Mount Charity, north-eastern Palmer Land

Antarctic Science

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-206

  Scarrow, Jane H ^a   Pankhurst, R J ^a   Leat, P T ^a   Vaughan, A P M ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

geochronology; I type granite; magmatic arc; petrogenesis; S type granite

Indexed keywords

GRANITE; I TYPE ROCK; MESOZOIC; PETROGENESIS; RUBIDIUM/STRONTIUM DATING; S TYPE ROCK;

ANTARCTICA, PALMER LAND, MOUNT CHARITY;

EID: 0030303727     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0954102096000260     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. ATHERTON, M.P. 1990. The Coastal Batholith of Peru: the product of rapid recycling of 'new' crust formed within a rifted continental margin. Geological Journal, 25, 337-349.
2. BECKINSALE, R.D. 1979. Granite magmatism in the tin belt of South-east Asia. In ATHERTON, M.P. & TARNEY, J., eds. Origin of granite batholiths. Nantwich, Cheshire: Shiva, 34-44.
3. CARMICHAEL, I.S.E. & NICHOLLS, J. 1967. Iron-titanium oxides and oxygen fugacities in volcanic rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research, 72, 4665-3687.
4. CHAPPELL, B.W. & WHITE, A.J.R. 1992. I- and S-type granites of the Lachlan fold belt. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, 83, 126.
5. CLEMENS, J.D. & VIELZEUF, D. 1987. Constraints on melting and magma production in the crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 86, 287-306
6. CZAMNSKE, G.K., ISHIHARA, S. & ATKIN, S.A. 1981. Chemistry of rock forming minerals of the Cretaceous-Paleocene batholith in south-western Japan and implications for magma genesis. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86, 10431-10469.
7. DAVIES, T.G. 1971. The geology of Mount Charity, the eastern side of mounts Hope and Faith, and eastwards through Mount Sullivan to Engel Peaks. British Antarctic Survey Interim Report, No. G5/1971/E[Unpublished].
8. DAVIES, T.G. 1984. The geology of part of northern Palmer Land. British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports, No. 103, 46 pp.
9. FLOYD, P.A. 1985. Petrology and geochemistry of oceanic intra-plate sheet flow basalts, Naruru Basin, Deep Sea Drilling Project leg 89. In MOBERLY, R., SCHLANOER, S.O. et al, eds. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 89, 471-497.
10. GREY, C.M. 1990. A strontium isotopic traverse across the granitic rocks of south-eastern Australia: petrogenetic and tectonic implications. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37, 331-349.
11. HAWKESWORTH, C. & CLARKE, C. 1994. Partial melting in the lower crust: new constraints on crustal contamination processes in the central Andes. In REUTTER, K.-J., SCHEUBER, E. & WIGGER, P.J., eds. Tectonics of the central Andes. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 93-101.
12. HILDRETH, W. & MOORBATH, S. 1988. Crustal contributions to arc magmatism in the Andes of central Chile. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 98, 455-489.
13. HOLE, M.J., PANKHURST, R.J. & SAUNDERS, A.D. 1991. Geochemical evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc: the importance of mantle-crust interactions during granitoid genesis. In THOMSON, M.R.A., CRAME, J.A. & THOMSON, J.W., eds. Geological evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 369-374.
14. HUPPERT, H.E. & SPARKS, R.S.J. 1988. The generation of granitic magmas by intrusion of mafic magmas into the crust. Journal of Petrology, 29, 599-624.
15. HUTTON, D.H.W. & REAVY, R.J. 1992. Strike-slip tectonics and granite petrogenesis. Tectonics, 11, 960-967.
16. INGRAM, G.M. & HUTTON, D.H.W. 1994. The Great Tonalite Sill: emplacement into a contractional shear zone and implications for Late Cretaceous to early Eocene tectonics in south-eastern Alaska and British Columbia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106, 715-728.
17. JOHANNES, W. 1983. Metastable melting in granite and related systems. In ATHERTON, M.P. & GRIBBLE, C.D., eds. Migmatites, melting and metamorphism. Nantwich, Cheshire: Shiva, 27-36.
18. KELLOGG, K. & ROWLEY, P.D. 1991. Tectonic evolution of the south-eastern Antarctic Peninsula. In THOMSON, M.R.A., CRAME, J.A. & THOMSON, J.W., eds. Geological evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 461-465.
19. LEAT, P.T., SCARROW, J.H. & MILLAR, I.L. 1995. On the Antarctic Peninsula batholith. Geological Magazine, 132, 399-412.
20. LEAT, P.T., STOREY, B.C. & PANKHURST, R.J. 1993. Geochemistry of Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Pacific rim orogenic magmatism, Thurston Island area, West Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 5, 281-296.
21. MACDONALD, D.I.M. & BUTTERWORTH, P.J. 1990. The stratigraphy, setting and hydrocarbon potential of the Mesozoic sedimentary basins of the Antarctic Peninsula. In ST. JOHN, B., ed. Antarctica as an exploration frontier. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology, No. 31, 102-125.
22. MENEILLY, A.W., HARRISON, S.M., PIERCY, B.A. & STOREY, B.C. 1987. Structural evolution of the magmatic arc in northern Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula. In MCKENZIE, G.D., ed. Gondwana six: structure, tectonics and geophysics. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph, No. 40, 209-219.
23. MOYES, A.B. 1991. Variations in amphibole compositions from the Andean intrusive suite across the Antarctic Peninsula. In THOMSON, M.R.A., CRAME, J.A. & THOMSON, J.W., eds. Geological evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 375-379.
24. MUIR, R.J., WEAVER, S.D., BRADSHAW, J.D. EBY, G.N. & EVANS, J.A. 1995. The Cretaceous Separation Point batholith, New Zealand: granitoid magmas formed by melting of mafic lithosphere. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 152, 689-701.
25. PANKHURST, R.J. 1981. Preliminary geological report, north-eastern Palmer Land, 1980-81. British Antarctic Survey Interim Report, No. G3/1980-81/R [Unpublished].
26. PANKHURST, R.J. 1982. Rb-Sr geochronology of Graham Land, Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 139, 701-711.
27. PANKHURST, R.J. 1983. Rb-Sr constraints on the ages of basement rocks of the Antarctic Peninsula. In OLIVER, R.L., JAMES, P.R. & JAGO, J.B., eds. Antarctic earth science. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 367-371.
28. PANKHURST, R.J. 1990. The Paleozoic and Andean magmatic arcs of West Antarctica and southern South America. Geological Society of America Special Paper, No. 241, 17.
29. PANKHURST, R.J. & ROWLEY, P.D. 1991. Rb-Sr study of Cretaceous plutons from southern Antarctic Peninsula and eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. In THOMSON, M.R.A., CRAME, J.A. & THOMSON, J.W., eds. Geological evolution of Antarctica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 387-394.
30. PANKHURST, R.J., HOLE, M.J. & BROOK, M. 1988. Isotope evidence for the origin of Andean granites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, 79, 123-133.
31. PATERSON, S.R. & FOWLER, T.K., JR. 1993. Extensional pluton-emplacement models: do they work for large plutonic complexes? Geology, 21, 781-784.
32. Pearce, J.A., Harris, N.B.W. & Tindle, A.G. 1984. Trace element discrimination diagrams for the tectonic interpretation of granitic rocks. Journal of Petrology, 25, 956-983.
33. PITCHER, W.S. 1993. The nature and origin of granite. London: Blackie, 321 pp.
34. RAPELA, C.W. & PANKHURST, R.J. 1992. The granites of northern Patagonia and the Gastre Fault System in relation to the break-up of Gondwana. In STOREY, B.C., ALABASTER, T. & PANKHURST, R.J., eds. Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, No. 68, 209-220.
35. RAPP, R.P., RYERSON, F.J. & MILLER, C.F. 1987. Experimental evidence bearing on the stability of monazite during crustal anatexis. Geophysical Research Letters, 14, 307-310.
36. REX, D.C. 1976. Geochronology in relation to the stratigraphy of the Antarctic Peninsula. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin, No. 43, 49-58.
37. ROWLEY, P.D., VENNUM, W.R., KELLOGG, K.S., LAUDON, T.S., CARRARA, P.E., BOYLES, J.M. & THOMSON, M.R.A. 1983. Geology and plate tectonic setting of the Orville Coast and eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. In OLIVER, R.L., JAMES, P.R. & JAGO, J.B., eds. Antarctic earth science. Canberra: Australian Academy of Science & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 245-250.
38. RUSHMER, T. 1991. Partial melting of two amphibolites: contrasting experimental results under fluid-absent conditions. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 107, 41-59.
39. SAUNDERS, A.D. & TABNEY, J. 1982. Igneous activity in the southern Andes and northern Antarctic Peninsula: a review. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 139, 691-700.
40. SAUNDERS, A.D., TARNEY, J. & WEAVER, S.D. 1980. Transverse geochemical variations across the Antarctic Peninsula: implications for the genesis of calc-alkaline magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 46, 344-360.
41. SCARROW, J.H., LEAT, P.T., MILLAR, I.L., WAREHAM, C.D., & GRIFFITHS, C.G. 1995. Antarctic Peninsula magmatism: mantle and crustal sources. Mineralogical Society Bulletin, No. 107, 14.
42. SIMPSON, C. & WINTSCH, R.P. 1989. Evidence for deformation-induced K-feldspar replacement by myrmekite. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 7, 261-275.
43. SMELLIE, J.L. & MILLAR, I.L. 1995. New K-Ar isotopic ages of schists from Nordenskjöld Coast, Antarctic Peninsula: oldest part of the Trinity Peninsula Group? Antarctic Science, 7, 191-196.
44. STEPHENS, W.E. 1992. Spatial, compositional and rheological constraints on the origin of zoning in the Criffell pluton, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 83, 191-199.
45. STOREY, B.C. & ALABASTER, T. 1991. Tectonomagmatic controls on Gondwana break-up models: evidence from the proto-Pacific margin of Antarctica. Tectonics, 10, 1274-1288.
46. STOREY, B.C., ALABASTER, T., HOLE, M.J., PANKHURST, R.J. & WEVER, H.E. 1992. Role of subduction-plate boundary forces during the initial stages of Gondwana break-up: evidence from the proto-Pacific margin of Antarctica. In STOREY, B.C., ALABASTER, T. & PANKHURST, R.J., eds. Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, No. 68, 149-163.
47. STOREY, B.C., VAUGHAN, A.P.M. & MILLAR, I.L. 1996. Geodynamic evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula during Mesozoic times and its bearing on Weddell Sea history. In STOREY, B.C., KING, E.C. & LIVERMORE, R.A., eds. Weddell Sea tectonics and Gondwana break-up. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London (in press).
48. SUÁREZ, M. 1976. Plate-tectonic model for southern Antarctic Peninsula and its relation to southern Andes. Geology, 4, 211-214.
49. VAUGHAN, A.P.M. & MILLAR, I.L. 1996. Early Cretaceous magmatism during extensional deformation within the Antarctic Peninsula magmatic arc. South American Journal of Earth Sciences (in press).
50. WEVER, H.E., MILLAR, I.L. & PANKHURST, R.J. 1994. Geochronology and radiogenic isotope geology of Mesozoic rocks from eastern Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula: crustal anatexis in arc-related granitoid genesis. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 7, 69-83.
51. WEVER, H.E. STOREY, B.C. & LEAT, P. 1995. Peraluminous granites in NE Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula: early Mesozoic crustal melting in a magmatic arc. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 152, 85-96.
52. WILLAN, R.C.R., PANKHURST, R.J. & HERVÉ, F. 1994. A probable Early Triassic age for the Miers Bluff Formation, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. Antarctic Science, 6, 401-408.
53. WYLLIE, P.J. 1983. Experimental and thermal constraints on the deep seated parentage of some granitoid magmas at subduction zones. In ATHERTON, M.P. & GRIBBLE, C., eds. Migmatites, melting and metamorphism. Nantwich, Cheshire: Shiva, 37-51.