| Autor: |
Dallai, L., Ghezzo, C., Turi, B., Vesica, P. L. |
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Mineralogy & Petrology; Jul2002, Vol. 75 Issue 3/4, p223-241, 19p |
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The oxygen and strontium isotope compositions of the Cambro-Ordovician granitoids cropping out in the Wilson Terrane (Granite Harbour Intrusives–GHI) constrain the petrological evolution of the magmatism in Antarctica, related to the Ross Orogeny. The measured δ18OWR values of these intrusives define three different compositional groups: the metaluminous rocks (MAG), with δ18OWR ranging from 6.9 (olivine gabbro) to 11.4‰ (monzogranite); the unaltered peraluminous granites (PAG), having δ18OWR values ranging from 10.6 to 13.2‰, and the foliated peraluminous leucogranites (SKG), characterised by δ18OWR values above 14‰. The analysis of equilibrium mineral assemblages indicates that the high δ18OWR values are magmatic and unaffected by low-temperature processes. A few peraluminous granites sampled in the vicinity of Cenozoic intrusions show anomalously low δ18OWR, due to meteoric-hydrothermal alteration. The isotopic data indicate that the coeval and spatially related metaluminous mafic and felsic intrusives forming the GHI were not comagmatic: the mafic and intermediate rocks were likely derived from lower crustal contamination of a pristine basaltic magma; their δ18OWR values were also increased during emplacement, due to the interaction with the adjacent 18O-rich hydrous felsic magmas (mixing). Oxygen isotope data indicate that the crustal sources producing the Granite Harbour intrusives were not homogeneous: the felsic metaluminous intrusives were produced by partial melting of fertile rock with possible igneous origin, whereas partial melting of a metapelitic source rock is claimed for the genesis of the peraluminous granites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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