Sandroni, Sonja; Talarico, Franco M (2001): Geochemistry of basement clasts from sediment core CRP-3 in the ross Sea, Antarctica [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.510769, Supplement to: Sandroni, S; Talarico, FM (2001): Petrography and provenance of basement clasts and clast variability in CRP-3 drillcore (Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica). http://www.mna.unisi.it/english/Publications/TAP/TA_pdfs/Volume_08/CRP3_Science_Results/TA_08_449_Sandroni.pdf, Terra Antartica, 8(4), 449-468, hdl:10013/epic.28227.d001
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Abstract:
Distribution patterns and petrographical and mineral chemistry data are described for the most representative basement lithologies occuring as clast in the c. 824 m thick Tertiary sedimentary sequence at the CRP-3 drillsite. These are granule to bolder grain size clasts of igneous and metamorphic rocks. Within the basement clast assemblage, granitoid pebbles are the predominant lithology. They consist of dominant grey biotic-bearing monzogranite, pink biotite-hornblende monzogranite, and biotite-bearing leucomomonzgranite. Minor lithologies include: actinolite-bearing leucotonalite, microgranite, biotite-hornblende quartz-monzonitic porphyr, and foliated biotic leucomonzogranite. Metamorphic clasts include rocks of both granitic and sedimentary derivation. They include mylonitic biotic orthogneiss, with or without garnet, muscovite-bearing quartzite, sillimanite-biotite paragneiss, biotite meta-sandstone, biotite-spotted schist, biotite-clacite-clinoamphibole meta-feldspathic arenite, biotite-calcite-clinozoisite meta-siltstone, biotite±clinoamphibole meta-marl, and graphite-bearing marble. As in previous CRP drillcores, the ubiquitous occurence of biotite±hornblende monzogranite pebbles is indicative of a local provenance, closely mirroring the dominance of these lithologies in the on-shore basement, where the Cambro-Ordovician Granite Harbour Intrusive Complex forms the most extensively exposed rock unit.
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Cape Roberts Project (CRP)
Coverage:
Latitude: -77.006000 * Longitude: 163.719000
Date/Time Start: 1999-10-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-11-19T00:00:00
Event(s):
CRP-3 * Latitude: -77.006000 * Longitude: 163.719000 * Date/Time Start: 1999-10-09T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1999-11-19T00:00:00 * Elevation: -295.0 m * Penetration: 939 m * Recovery: 936 m * Location: Ross Sea * Campaign: CRP-3 * Basis: Sampling/drilling from ice * Method/Device: Core wireline system (CWS) * Comment: 11.76 km at 76° true from Cape Roberts, 2.04 km at 225° true from CRP-2. Fast ice thickness: 2.0 to 2.2 m. Sea rise embedded to 9.55 mbsf. Lateral ice movement from spudding 5.0 m to 82° true. HQ core to 345.85 mbsf. NQ core to 939.42 mbsf. Core recovery 97%. Phase 1 logging to 345 mbsf, Phase 2 logging to 773 mbsf, Phase 3 logging to 918 mbsf. Deepest Cenozoic lithology and depth: sandstone breccia from 822.87 to 823.11 mbsf. Age of oldest Cenozoic strata: earliest Oligocene or latest Eocene. Deepest core lithology and depth: light red-brown quartz-cemented quartz sandstone to 939.42 mbsf. Age of bedrock: (mid?) Devonian.
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- Sandroni, S; Talarico, FM (2001): (Table 2) Representative chemical analyses of biotite in basement clasts of sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.484632
- Sandroni, S; Talarico, FM (2001): (Table 3) Representative chemical analyses of clinoamphibole and garnet in basement clasts of sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.484673
- Sandroni, S; Talarico, FM (2001): (Table 1) Petrographical classification and mineral assemblage of representative Cenozoic samples of basement clasts of sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.191085