The fontaine pluton: An early ross orogeny calc-alkaline gabbro from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-189

  Cottle, John M ^a,b   Cooper, Alan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Calc alkaline; Fontaine Pluton; Gabbro; Ross Orogeny

Indexed keywords

CALC ALKALINE ROCK; EMPLACEMENT; GABBRO; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; PLUTON; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 33746537767     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515158     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Allibone, AH. 1992. Low pressure/high temperature metamorphism of Koettlitz Group schists, Taylor Valley and upper Ferrar Glacier area, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 35:115–127.
2. Allibone, AH, and Wysoczanski, R. 2002. Initiation of magmatism during the Cambro-Ordovician Ross Orogeny in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 114(8):1007–1018.
3. Allibone, AH, Cox, SC, Graham, IJ, Smillie, RW, Johnstone, RD, Ellery, SG, and Palmer, K. 1993a. Granitoids of the Dry Valleys area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica:plutons, field relationships, and isotopic dating. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 36:281–297.
4. Allibone, AH, Cox, SC, and Smillie, RW. 1993b. Granitoids of the Dry Valleys area, southern Victoria Land:geochemistry and evolution along the early Paleozoic Antarctic Craton margin. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 36:299–316.
5. Aslund, T. 1990. Magmatism and metamorphism of mafic intrusions of the Dromedary Mafic Complex, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Dunedin, New Zealand:University of Otago. Unpublished MSc thesis, lodged in the library
6. Blattner, P. 1978. Geology and geochemistry of Mt Dromedary Massif, Koettlitz Glacier area, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica—preliminary report. New Zealand Antarctic Record, 1:16–19.
7. Borg, SG, and DePaolo, DJ. 1991. A tectonic model of the Antarctic Gondwana margin with implications for southeastern Australia:isotopic and geochemical evidence. Tectonophysics, 196:339–358.
8. Borg, SG, Goodge, JW, Bennett, VC, and DePaolo, DJ. 1987. Granitoids of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica:implications of chemical and isotopic variations to regional crustal structure and tectonics. American Journal of Science, 287:127–169.
9. Cook, YA. 1997. The Skelton Group and the Ross Orogeny, Dunedin, New Zealand:University of Otago. Unpublished PhD thesis, lodged in the library
10. Cook, YA, and Craw, D. 2001. Amalgamation of disparate crustal fragments in the Walcott Bay-Foster Glacier area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 44:303–416.
11. Cook, YA, and Craw, D. 2002. Neoproterozoic structural slices in the Ross Orogen, Skelton Glacier area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 45:133–143.
12. Cooper, AF, Worley, BA, Armstrong, RA, and Price, RC. The Antarctic region; geological evolution and processes. VII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Siena. Synorogenic alkaline and carbonatitic magmatism in the Transantarctic Mountains of South Victoria Land, Antarctica, Edited by:Ricci, CA. pp. 245–252. Terra Antartica Publication.
13. Cottle, JM. 2002. Evolution of a convergent margin:a petrological study of Ross Orogeny magmatism in the Carlyon Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Dunedin, New Zealand:University of Otago. Unpublished MSc thesis, lodged in the library
14. Cox, SC. 1992. Garnet-biotite geothermometry of Koettlitz Group metasediments, Wright Valley, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 35:29–40.
15. Cox, SC. 1993. Inter-related plutonism and deformation in South Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geological Magazine, 130:1–14.
16. Cox, SC, Parkinson, DL, Allibone, AH, and Cooper, AF. 2000. Isotopic character of Cambro-Ordovician plutonism, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 43:501–520.
17. Dalziel, IW. 1992. Antarctica:a tale of two continents. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 20:501–526.
18. Davidson, JP. 1996. “ Deciphering mantle and crustal signatures in sub-duction zone magmatism ”. In Subduction top to bottom, Geophysical Monograph 96 Edited by:Bebout, GE, Scholl, DW, Kirby, SH, and Platt, JP. 251–262. American Geophysical Union.
19. DePaolo, DJ. 1981. A neodymium and strontium isotopic study of the Mesozoic calc-alkaline granitic batholiths of the Sierra Nevada and Peninsula Ranges, California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 86(B11):10470–10488.
20. Encarnacion, J, and Grunow, A. 1996. Changing magmatic and tectonic styles along the Paleo-Pacific margin of Gondwana and the onset of early Paleozoic magmatism in Antarctica. Tectonics, 15:1325–1341.
21. Flottman, T, Gibson, GM, and Kleinschmidt, G. 1993. Structural continuity of the Ross and Delamerian Orogens of Antarctica and Australia along the margin of the Paleo-Pacific. Geology, 21:319–322.
22. Gibson, GM, and Ireland, TR. 1996. Extension of Delamerian (Ross) Orogeny into western New Zealand:evidence from zircon ages and implications for crustal growth along the Pacific margin of Antarctica. Geology, 12:1087–1090.
23. Gunn, BM, and Warren, G. 1962. Geology of Victoria Land between the Mawson and Mulock Glaciers, Antarctica, New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 71
24. Hall, CE, Cooper, AF, and Parkinson, DL. 1995. Early Cambrian carbonatite in Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 152:721–728.
25. Henderson, P, ed. 1984. Rare earth element geochemistry, 510Amsterdam:Elsevier.
26. 2O on the genesis of basaltic magmas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 133(3–4):463–473.
27. Hutchison, CS. 1974. Laboratory handbook of petrographic techniques, 364New York:John Wiley and Sons.
28. Irvine, TN, and Baragar, WRA. 1971. A guide to the chemical classification of the common volcanic rocks. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 8:523–548.
29. Krogh, TE. 1973. A low contamination method for hydrothermal decomposition of zircon and extraction of U and Pb for isotopic determination. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 37:485–494.
30. Laird, MG, Mansergh, GD, and Chappell, JMA. 1971. Geology of the central Nimrod Glacier area, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 14:427–468.
31. Le Bas, MJ, Le Maitre, RW, Streckeisen, A, and Zanettin, B. 1986. A chemical classification of volcanic rocks on the total alkali-silica diagram. Journal of Petrology, 27(3):745–750.
32. McDonough, WF, Sun, S-S, Ringwood, AE, Jagoutz, E, and Hoffman, AW. 1992. Potassium, rubidium and cesium in the Earth and Moon and the evolution of the mantle and the Earth. Geochimicia et Cosmochimica Acta, 56:1001–1012.
33. Macdougall, JD. 1988. “ Continental flood basalts and MORB:a brief discussion of similarities and differences in their petrogenesis ”. In Continental flood basalts, Edited by:Macdougall, JD. 331–341. Dordrecht:Kluwer Academic Publishers.
34. Mellish, SD. 2000. Panorama geology, Antarctica:a study of the mafic, undersaturated and granitic alkaline Ross Orogeny magmatism from Panorama Ridge, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Dunedin, New Zealand:University of Otago. Unpublished MSc thesis, lodged in the library
35. Mellish, SD, Cooper, AF, and Walker, NW. 2002. The Panorama Pluton:a composite gabbro-monzodiorite, early Ross Orogeny intrusion in southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In:Gamble JA, Skinner DNB, Henrys S ed. Antarctica at the close of a millennium. The Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, 35:129–141.
36. Middlemost, EAK. 1989. Iron oxidation ratios, norms and the classification of volcanic rocks. Chemical Geology, 77:19–26.
37. Miyashiro, A. 1974. Volcanic rock series in island arcs and active continental margins. American Journal of Science, 274:321–355.
38. Norrish, K, and Chappell, BW. 1977. “ X-ray fluorescence spectrometry ”. In Physical methods in determinative mineralogy, Edited by:Zussman, J. 201–272. New York:Academic Press.
39. Parrish, RR, Roddick, JC, and Loveridge, WD. 1987. Uranium-lead analytical techniques at the geochronology laboratory. Geological Survey of Canada Paper, 87(2):3–7.
40. Peacock, MA. 1931. Classification of igneous rock series. Journal of Geology, 39:54–67.
41. Pearce, JA. 1982. “ The role of sub-continental lithosphere in magma genesis at destructive plate margins ”. In Continental basalts and mantle xenoliths, Edited by:Hawkesworth, CJ, and Norry, MJ. 230–249. Nantwich:Shiva.
42. Read, SE, Cooper, AF, and Walker, NW. 2002. Geochemistry and U-Pb geochronology of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Koettlitz Glacier Alkaline Province, Royal Society Range, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. In:Gamble JA, Skinner DNB, Henrys S ed. Antarctica at the close of a millennium. The Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, 35:143–151.
43. Rowell, AJ, Rees, MN, Duebendorfer, EM, Wallen, ET, Van Schmus, WR, and Smith, EI. 1993. An active Neoproterozoic margin:evidence from the Skelton Glacier area, Transantarctic Mountains. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 150:677–682.
44. Shand, SJ. 1949. Rocks of the mid-Atlantic ridge. Journal of Geology, 57(1):89–92.
45. Simpson, AL, and Cooper, AF. 2002. Geochemistry of the Darwin Glacier region granitoids, southern Victoria Land. Antarctic Science, 14:425–426.
46. Simpson, GDH. 1994. Mid-crustal processes:a study of fluid flow and deformation in the Renegar Glacier region, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Dunedin, New Zealand:University of Otago. Unpublished MSc thesis, lodged in the library
47. Simpson, GDH, and Aslund, T. 1996. Diorite and gabbro of the Dromedary mafic complex, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 39:403–414.
48. Smillie, RW. 1992. Suite subdivision and petrological evolution of granitoids from the Taylor Valley and Ferrar Glacier region, South Victoria Land. Antarctic Science, 4(1):71–87.
49. Stacey, JS, and Kramers, JD. 1975. Approximation of terrestrial lead evolution by a two-stage model. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 26:207–221.
50. Stump, E. 1995. The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains, 284Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
51. Sun, S-S, and McDonough, WF. 1989. “ Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts:implications for mantle composition and processes ”. In Magmatism in the ocean basins, London, Geological Society Special Publication 42 Edited by:Saunders, AD, and Norry, MJ. 313–346.
52. Walcott, RC. 1990. The role of lithology in the complex structure of Dromedary Massif, Antarctica, Dunedin, New Zealand:University of Otago. Unpublished MSc thesis, lodged in the library
53. Walcott, RC, and Craw, D. 1993a. Postemplacement deformation of plutons and their metasedimentary host, Mt Dromedary area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 36:487–496.
54. Walcott, RC, and Craw, D. 1993b. Subsolidus physical and chemical mixing of granite and gabbro during mylonitization, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. Journal of Structural Geology, 15:1433–1441.
55. Wilson, M. 1989. Igneous processes—a global approach, 466London:Harper Collins.