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Eclogite at the Antarctic palaeo-Pacific active margin of Gondwana (Lanterman Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2004

C.A. Ricci
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, via Delle Cerchia 3, 53100 Siena, Italy
F. Talarico
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, via Delle Cerchia 3, 53100 Siena, Italy
R. Palmeri
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, via Delle Cerchia 3, 53100 Siena, Italy
G. Di Vincenzo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, via Delle Cerchia 3, 53100 Siena, Italy
P.C. Pertusati
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, via Santa Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy

Abstract

Well-preserved eclogites were found for the first time in Antarctica, at the Lanterman Range, northern Victoria Land. They are part of a mafic–ultramafic belt that lies between the Wilson Terrane, representing part of the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana, and the Bowers Terrane, a Cambro-Ordovician volcanic are and related sediments, accreted to the margin during the Ross Orogeny. The eclogites formed at temperatures in the range 750–850°C and pressures above 15 kbar and subsequently experienced a decompressional path to low pressure amphibolite facies conditions. The formation and exhumation of eclogites and the attainment of the metamorphic peak in adjacent rock units is consistent with a plate convergent setting model at the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana.

Type
Papers—Earth Sciences and Glaciology
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1996

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