Geochronology and radiogenic isotope geology of Mesozoic rocks from eastern Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula: crustal anatexis in arc-related granitoid genesis

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 (1). 69-83. 10.1016/0895-9811(94)90035-3

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Abstract/Summary

RbSr and SmNd analyses, as well as a few new KAr dates, are presented for plutonic igneous, meta-igneous and metasedimentary rocks from the central Black Coast area of eastern Palmer Land (southeastern Antarctic Peninsula). Gneissic and foliated leucogranitoids, previously ascribed to a ? Precambrian/Paleozoic basement, yield Late Triassic to earliest Jurassic RbSr isochron ages, with initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios of up to 0.721 and εNdt values as low as −9. Isotopic comparison with local metasedimentary rocks suggests that the granitoids represent granite magmas that were generated, at least in part, by anatexis of similar metasediments at depth. Contemporaneous I-type granitoids have initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios of 0.705–0.707 and εNdt values of −1 to −4. These cannot be distinguished from those of the subsequent, mid-Cretaceous, undeformed granitoids, which represent the climax of Andean subduction-related magmatism in this area. KAr ages on basaltic dikes record emplacement associated with late-stage block-faulting and uplift of the Cretaceous batholith at about 80 Ma. Triassic/Jurassic crustal anatexis is related to a period of reduced subduction within a plate margin regime that had been active during Paleozoic times. It corresponds to the earliest stages of lithospheric extension in the proto-Pacific margin of Gondwana, prior to mid-Jurassic formation of back-arc basins in the western Weddell Sea, and to Late Jurassic continental separation.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/0895-9811(94)90035-3
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme
ISSN:	08959811
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	10 Aug 2017 10:08 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517543

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1016/0895-9811(94)90035-3

Programmes:

BGS Programmes > NERC Isotope Geoscience Laboratory
BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme

ISSN:

08959811

NORA Subject Terms:

Earth Sciences

Date made live:

10 Aug 2017 10:08 +0 (UTC)