Potassium-argon age determinations of Ferrar Group rocks, central Transantarctic Mountains

Author(s):  
David H. Elliot ◽  
Robert J. Fleck ◽  
John F. Sutter
1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip R. Kyle ◽  
H. Lee Muncy

Trachyandesite lava flows and trachytic dykes exposed at ‘Gandalf Ridge’ and near Lake Morning on the northern slopes of Mount Morning represent the oldest exposed volcanic rocks in the Erebus volcanic province of the McMurdo Volcanic Group. Conventional whole rock K-Ar age determinations show the rocks are mid-Miocene, ranging between 14.6 and 18.7 Ma. North–south trending faults, which parallel the Transantarctic Mountains, cut the dated dykes. The faults are probably part of a broad fault zone which bounds the uplifted Transantarctic Mountains and the down-dropped Ross Sea/Ross Ice Shelf embayment.


Author(s):  
A. Graham Leslie ◽  
Allen P. Nutman

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Leslie, A. G., & Nutman, A. P. (2000). Episodic tectono-thermal activity in the southern part of the East Greenland Caledonides. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 186, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v186.5214 _______________ Isotopic data from the Renland augen granites of the Scoresby Sund region (Figs 1, 2) provided some of the first convincing support for relicts of potentially Grenvillian tectono-thermal activity within the East Greenland Caledonides. In Renland, Chadwick (1975) showed the presence of major bodies of augen granite (Fig. 2) interpreted by Steiger et al. (1979), on the basis of Rb–Sr whole rock and U–Pb zircon age determinations, to have been emplaced about 1000 Ma ago.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bailey Nordin ◽  
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Stephen E. Cox ◽  
Sidney Hemming ◽  
Stuart N. Thomson ◽  
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