The subantarctic lithospheric mantle

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  • Guillaume Delpech
  • James M. Scott
  • Michel Grégoire
  • Bertrand N. Moine
  • Dongxu Li
  • Jingao Liu
  • D. Graham Pearson
  • Quinten H. A. van der Meer
  • Waight, Tod
  • Gilbert Michon
  • Damien Guillaume
  • Suzanne Y. O’reilly
  • Jean Yves Cottin
  • André Giret

We present a summary of peridotite in the Subantarctic (46–60° S) surrounding the Antarctic Plate. Peridotite xenoliths occur on the Kerguelen Islands and Auckland Islands. The Kerguelen Islands are underlain by a plume, whereas the Auckland Islands are part of continental Zealandia, which is a Gondwana-rifted fragment. Small amounts of serpentinized peridotite has been dredged from fracture zones on the Southeast Indian Ridge, Southwest Indian Ridge and Pacific Antarctic Ridge, and represent upwelled asthenosphere accreted to form lith-osphere. Suprasubduction-zone peridotite was collected from two locations on the Sandwich Plate. Peridotites from most subantarctic occur-rences are moderately to highly depleted, and many show signs of subsequent metasomatic enrichment. Os isotopes indicate that subantarctic continental and oceanic lithospheric mantle contains ancient fragments that underwent depletion long before formation of the overlying crust.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
BogserieGeological Society Memoir
Vol/bind56
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)115-132
Antal sider18
ISSN0435-4052
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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