On the origin of fore-arc basins: new evidence of formation by rifting from the Jurassic of Alexander Island, Antarctica
Macdonald, D.I.M.; Leat, P.T.; Doubleday, P.A.; Kelly, S.R.A.. 1999 On the origin of fore-arc basins: new evidence of formation by rifting from the Jurassic of Alexander Island, Antarctica. Terra Nova, 11 (4). 186-193. 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.00244.x
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The Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Fossil Bluff Group of Alexander Island, Antarctica represents the fill of a fore-arc basin unconformably overlying an accretionary complex. Like most fore-arc basins, this example had been considered to have a passive origin, as a topographic hollow between the arc and the trench-slope break. Recent discoveries of igneous rock coeval with sedimentation have altered this view. Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian basaltic and rhyolitic sills and lava flows are found in a restricted area at the north of the basin, within a single formation. Chemically, most basalts are high-Nb types, which cannot have originated in a supra-subduction zone setting. Since the age of emplacement of these rocks coincides with a gap in the record of plutonism in the Antarctic Peninsula volcanic arc, it is concluded that a late Jurassic pause in subduction led to active rifting to form the fore-arc basin.
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.00244.x |
Programmes: | BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme |
ISSN: | 0954-4879 |
Date made live: | 21 Oct 2013 10:47 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503581 |
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