Oligoclase from Antarctic Plate

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Antarctica
Eastern Antarctica Enderby Land Edward VIII Bay ⓘ Oygarden Islands	Journal of Petrology, 2004, 45 (7), pp. 1481-1512.
Victoria Land Elephant Moraine ⓘ Elephant Moraine 83309 meteorite	Downes, H., Beard, A. D. & Howard, K. (2009) Petrology of a Granitic Clast in Polymict Ureilite EET 83309: Meteoritics & Planetary Science 44 (7, Supplement): page. A63. (Sept 2009).
ⓘ Elephant Moraine 90102 meteorite	Schwarz, C. & Mason, B. (1992) Description of EET90102. Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter 15 ( 2): 27. (Sept 1992)
ⓘ Frontier Mountain meteorite trap	Rochette, P., Folco, L., Suavet, C., van Ginneken, M., Gattacceca, J., Perchiazzi, N., ... & Harvey, R. P. (2008). Micrometeorites from the transantarctic mountains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(47), 18206-18211.
Queen Alexandra Range ⓘ Queen Alexandra Range 94204 meteorite	van Niekerk, D., Keil, K. & Humayan, M. (2014) Petrogenesis of anomalous Queen Alexandra Range enstatite meteorites and their relation to enstatite chondrites, primitive enstatite achondrites, and aubrites: Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49 (3): 295-312. (March 2014)
Western Antarctica Marie Byrd Land ⓘ Dorrel Rock	Woolley, Alan R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. The Geological Society of London. doi:10.1144/mpar4 Rocchi, S., LeMasurier, W. E., & Di Vincenzo, G. (2006). Oligocene to Holocene erosion and glacial history in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, inferred from exhumation of the Dorrel Rock intrusive complex and from volcano morphologies. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 118(7-8), 991-1005. LeMasurier, W.E. (1990) B. Marie Byrd Land. In Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans Vol. 48 - Antarctic Research Series. American Geophysical Union. p.146-255. doi:10.1029/AR048 LeMasurier, W. E., & Rex, D. C. (1982). Volcanic record of Cenozoic glacial history in Marie Byrd Land and western Ellsworth Land: Revised chronology and evaluation of tectonic factors. Antarctic Geoscience, 89, 725-734.