Age and correlation of the Nimrod Group and other precambrian rock units in the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
作者:
G. W. Grindley,
Ian McDougall,
期刊:
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
(Taylor Available online 1969)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 2-3
页码: 391-411
ISSN:0028-8306
年代: 1969
DOI:10.1080/00288306.1969.10420290
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Potassium-argon dates determined on hornblendes from amphibolites in the regionally metamorphosed gneisses and schists of the Nimrod Group at the head of the Nimrod Glacier range in age from 500 to 1,050 m.y. The younger dates agree with previously determined K—Ar ages on micas and probably indicate reheating of the metamorphic terrane during emplacement of the Granite Harbour Intrusives in the Ordovician. Precambrian ages clustered between 1,000 and 1,050 m.y. probably date the end of the regional metamorphism that is termed Nimrod Orogeny and is the earliest event known to have affected the Transantarctic Mountains. An event at about the same time has been recognised on the continental margin of east Antarctica between 90° E and 130° E and in western Queen Maud Land. Elsewhere it has been overprinted with loss of radiogenic argon and strontium by later events, especially the 450–520 m.y. Ross Orogeny.
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