Pompilio, Massimo; Armienti, Pietro; Tamponi, M (2001): Investigations on volcanic rocks in sediment core CRP-3 from the Ross Sea, Antarctica [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.510770, Supplement to: Pompilio, M et al. (2001): Petrography, mineral composition and geochemistry of volcanic and subvulcanic rocks of CRP-3, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 8(4), 469-480, hdl:10013/epic.28226.d001
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Abstract:
The petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry of volcanic and subvolcanic rocks in CRP-3 core have been examined in detail in order to characterise and to compare them with volcanic and subvolcanic rocks cropping out in the Victoria Land area, and to define the clast provenance or to establish possible volcanic activity coeval with deposition. Clasts with sizes ranging from granule to boulder show geochemical and mineralogical features comparable with those of Ferrar Supergroup rocks. They display a subalkaline affinity and compositions ranging from basalts to dacite. Three different petrographic groups with distinct textural and grain size features (subophitic, intergranular-intersertal, and glassy-hyalopilitic) are recognised and are related to the emplacement/cooling mechanism. In the sand to silt fraction, the few glass shards that have been recognised are strongly altered: however chemical analyses show they have subalkalic magmatic affinity. Mineral compositions of the abundant free clinopyroxene grains found in the core, are less affected by alteration processes, and indicate an origin from subalkaline magmas. This excludes the presence, during the deposition of CRP-3 rocks of alkaline volcanic activity comparable with the McMurdo Volcanic Group. Strong alteration of the magmatic body intruded the Beacon sandstones obliterates the original mineral assemblage. Geochemical investigations confirm that intrusion is part of the Ferar Large Igneous Province.
Project(s):
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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- Pompilio, M; Armienti, P; Tamponi, M (2001): (Table 3) Bulk-rock major and trace element composition of selected clasts of sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.185032
- Pompilio, M; Armienti, P; Tamponi, M (2001): (Table 4) Average composition of glass shards and glassy mesostasis in sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.484676
- Pompilio, M; Armienti, P; Tamponi, M (2001): (Table 1) Composition of selected plagioclase crystals in sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.484974
- Pompilio, M; Armienti, P; Tamponi, M (2001): (Table 2) Composition of selected pyroxene crystals in sediment core CRP-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.484674