40Ar-39Ar chronology and petrology of the Miocene rift-related volcanism of Daniell Peninsula (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Terra Antarctica

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 39-62

  Nardini, I ^a   Armienti, P ^a   Rocchi, S ^a   Burgess, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; GEOCHEMISTRY; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PETROLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA;

TRACHYTES; VICTORIA;

EID: 0041320850     PISSN: 11228628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Armienti P., Francalanci L., Landi P. & Vita G., in press. Age and geochemistry of volcanic rocks from Daniell Peninsula and Coulman Island, Hallett Volcanic Province, Antarctica. Geologisches Jahrbuch..
2. Armienti P. & Baroni C., 1999. Cenozoic climatic change in Antarctica recorded by volcanic activity and landscape evolution. Geology, 27, 617-620.
3. Armienti P., Civetta L., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Tripodo A., Villari L. & Vita G., 1991. New petrological and geochemical data on Mt. Melbourne Volcanic Field, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. (II Italian Antarctic Expedition). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 46, 397-424.
4. Armienti P. & Tripodo A., 1991. Petrography and chemistry of lavas and comagmatic xenoliths of Mt. Rittmann, a volcano discovered during the IV Italian expedition in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 46, 427-451.
5. Armienti P., Ghezzo C., Innocenti F., Manetti P., Rocchi S. & Tonarini S., 1990. Paleozoic and Cainozoic Intrusives of Wilson terrane: geochemical and isotopic data. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 43, 67-75.
6. Beccaluva L., Coltorti M., Orsi G., Saccani E. & Siena F.,1991. Nature and evolution of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle of Antarctica: evidence from ultramafic xenoliths of the Melbourne volcanic province (Northern Victoria Land). Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 46, 353-370.
7. Behrendt J.C., Saltus R., Damaske D., McCafferty A., Finn C.A., Blankenship D. & Bell R.E., 1996. Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic Rift System revealed by aeromagnetic surveys. Tectonics, 15, 660-676.
8. Beherendt J.C., LeMasurier W.E., Cooper A.K., Tessensohn F., Tréhu A. & Damaske D., 1991. Geohysical studies of the West Antarctic Rift System. Tectonics, 10, 1257-1273.
9. Bosum W., Damaske D., Roland N.W. & Behrendt J.C., 1989. The GANOVEX IV Victoria Land/Ross Sea aeromagnetic survey: interpretation of anomalies Geologisches Jahrbuch, B41, 153-210.
10. Cape Roberts Science Team, 1999. Studies from the Cape Roberts Project. Ross Sea, Antarctica. Initial report on CRP-2/2A, 4 - Petrology, Terra Antartica, 6, 89-106.
11. Chayes F., 1977. The oceanic basalt-trachyte relation in general and in the Canary trends. American Mineralogist, 62, 666-671.
12. Cross W., Iddings J.P., Pirsson L.V. & Washington H.S., 1903. Quantitative classification of igneous rocks. Univ. Chicago Press.
13. D'Orazio M., Armienti P. & Cerretini S., 1998. Phenocryst/matrix trace-element partition coefficients for hawaiite-trachyte lavas from the Ellittico volcanic sequence (Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy). Mineral. Petrol., 64, 65-88.
14. Franzini M., Leoni L. & Saitta M., 1975. Revisione di una metodologia analitica per fluorescenza-X, basata sulla correzione completa degli effetti di matrice. Rendiconto della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 31, 365-378.
15. GANOVEX I., 1987. Geological Map of North Victoria Land, Antarctica, 1:500000 Explanatory notes. German Antarctic North Victoria Land Expedition 1982-1983. Geologisches Jahrbuch, B66, 7-69.
16. Ghiorso M.S. & Sack R.O., 1991. Fe-Ti oxide geothermometry: Thermodynamic formulation and the estimation of intensive variable in silicic magmas Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 108, 485-510.
17. Green D.H., 1973. Experimental meltin studies on a model upper mantle composition at high pressure under water-saturated and water-undersaturated conditions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 19, 37-53.
18. Harrington H.J., 1958. Nomenclature of rock units in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica. Nature, 182, 4361, 290-291.
19. Irvine T.N. & Baragar W.R.A., 1971. A guide to the chemical classification of the common volcanic rocks. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 8, 523-548.
20. Irvine A.J. & Frey F.A., 1978. Distribution of trace elements between garnet megacrysts and host volcanic liquids of kimberlitic to rhyolitic composition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 42, 771-787.
21. Kreuzer H., Lenz H., Tessensohn F. & Jordan H., 1981. K-Ar and Rb-Sr dating of igneous rocks from North Victoria Land, Antarctica Short Note. Geologisches Jahrbuch, B41, 267-273.
22. Kyle P.R., 1990. McMurdo Volcanic Group-Western Ross Embayment: Introduction. In: W.E. LeMasurier & J.W. Thomson, Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans, Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C., 19-25.
23. Kyle P.R. & Muncy H.L., 1989. Geology and geochronology of McMurdo volcanic group rock in the vicinity of Lake Morning, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 1, 345-350.
24. Kyle P.R., Adams J. & Rankin P.C., 1979. Geology and petrology of the McMurdo Volcanic Group at Rainbow Ridge, Brown Peninsula, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 90, 676-688.
25. Le Bas J.M., Le Maitre R.W., Streckeisen A. & Zanettin B., 1986. A chemical classification of volcanic rocks based on the total alkali - silica diagram. Journal of Petrology, 27, 745-750.
26. Le Masurier W.A. & Thomson J.W., 1990. Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and southern oceans. Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union, 48, 40-42.
27. Leoni L. & Saitta M., 1976. X-ray fluorescence analyses of 29 trace elements in rock and mineral standards. Rendiconto della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 32, 497-510.
28. Maxwell J.A., 1968. Wilson tritation Method. Chemical Analysis. In: Rock and Mineral Analysis, Interscience, 27, 206-241.
29. McDonald R., 1974. Nomenclature and petrochemistry of the peralkaline oversaturated extrusive rocks. Bulletin of Volcanology, 38, 498-516.
30. McDonough W.F. & Sun S.-S., 1995. The composition of the Earth. Chemical Geology, 120, 223-253.
31. McIntosh W.C. & Gamble J.A., 1989. A subaerial eruptive environment for the Hallett Coast Volcanoes. In: Thomson M.R.A., Crame J.A. & Thomson J.W. Cambridge University Press, Geological Evolution of Antarctica, 657-661.
32. Merrihue C. & Turner G., 1966. Potassium argon dating by activation with fast flux neutrons. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2852-2857.
33. Middlemost E.A.K., 1989. Iron oxidation ratios, norms and the classification of volcanic rocks. Chemical Geology, 77, 9-26.
34. Marimoto N., 1988. Nomenclature of pyroxenes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 39, 55-76.
35. Möller P. & Muecke G.K., 1984. Significance of Europium anomalies in silicate melts and crystal-melt equilibria: a reevaluation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 87, 242-250.
36. Müller P., Schmidt-Thomé M., Kreuzer H., Tessensohn F. & Vetter U., 1991. Cenozoic peralkaline magmatism at the western margin of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 46, 315-336.
37. Noll M.R., 1984. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the alkaline lavas and their associated xenoliths, Mt. Overlord, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. 130. Unpublished M-S thesis, Dept. Geoscience, New Mexico institute of Mining and Technology.
38. Orlando A,, Conticelli S.,Borrini D. & Armienti P., 2000. Experimental study on a primary basanitefrom McMurdo Volcanic Griup. Antarctica: Inference on its mantle source. Antarctica Science, 12, 105-116.
39. Orlando A., Armienti P., Conticelli S., Vaggelli G. & Manetti P., 1997. Petrologic investigations on the primitive Cainozoic lavas of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In: Ricci C.A. (ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, Terra Antartica Publication, Siena, 523-530.
40. Papike J.J., Cameron K.L. & Baldwin K., 1974. Amphiboles and clinopyroxenes. Characterization of other than quadrilateral components and estimates of ferric iron from microprobe data. Geol. Soc. Amer. Abstr. Programs, 6, 1053-1054.
41. Perinelli C., 2000. Modifications induced by metasomatism at high pressure and high temperature in the upper mantle peridotites in active rift, passive margin and intraplate magmatism. PHD. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra. Università di Pisa.
42. Rocchi S., Storti F. Di Vincenzo G. & Rossetti F., 2003. Intraplate strike-slip tectonics as an alternative to mantle plume activity for the Cenozoic rift magmatism in the Ross Sea region, Antarctica. In: Intraplate Strike -Slip Deformation Belts, Geological Society, London. Special Publications, 210, 145-158. (In press).
43. Rocchi S., Armienti P., D'Orazio M, Tonarini S, Wijbrans J.R. & Di Vincenzo G., 2002. Cenozoic magmatism in the western Ross Embayment : Role of mantle plume versus plate dynamics in the development of the West Antarctic Rift System. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(B7), 10.1029/2001JB000515.
44. 39Ar standards. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 47, 887-898.
45. Rossetti F., Storti F. & Salvini F., 2000. Cenozoic noncoaxial transtension along the western shoulder of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, and the emplacement of McMurdo dyke arrays. Terra Nova, 12, 60-66.
46. Salvini F., Brancolini G., Busetti M., Storti F., Mazzarini F. & Coren F., 1997. Cenozoic geodynamics of the ross Sea region of Antarctica: Crustal extension, intraplate strike-slip faulting and tectonic inheritance. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102. 24669-24696.
47. Stern T.A. & ten Brink U.S., 1989. Flexural uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research. 94(B8), 10315-10330.
48. Stormer J.C., 1983. The effect of recalculation on estimates of temperature and oxigen fugacity from analysis multicomponent iron-titanium oxides. American Mineralogist, 68, 586-594.
49. Stormer J.C. & Nicholls J., 1978. XLFRAC: a program for the interactive testing of magmatic differentiation models. Computers & Geoscience., 4, 153-159.
50. Sun S.S. & McDonough W.F., 1989. Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: Saunders A.D. & Norry M.J., Magmatism in Ocean Basins, Geological Society Special Publication, 42, 313-345.
51. Tonarini S., Rocchi S., Armienti P. & Innocenti F., 1997. Constraints on timing of Ross Sea rifting inferred from Cainozoic intrusions from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In: Ricci C.A. (ed.), The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, Terra Antartica Publication, Siena, 511-522.
52. 39Ar ages and cosmic ray exposure age of Apollo 14 samples. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 12, 19-35.
53. Wood B.J. & Blundy J.D., 1997. A predictive model for rare earth element partitioning between clinopyroxene and anhydrous silicate melts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 129, 166-181.
54. Wörner G., Vierek L., Hertoghen J. & Niephaus H., 1989. The Mt. Melbourne volcanic field (Victoria Land, Antarctica) II. Geochemistry and magma genesis. Geologisches Jahrbuch, E38, 395-433.