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Sillimanite from
Bunger Hills, Queen Mary Coast, Wilkes Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Sillimanite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sillimanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bunger Hills, Queen Mary Coast, Wilkes Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:321755
Long-form Identifier:1:3:321755:9
GUID (UUID V4):a0a409d8-febc-44f1-b10e-9455a12596ab
References
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Report (chapter)
southwestern Australia, and their correlation with Antarctica I. C. W. F I T Z S I M O N S Tectonics SRC,...provinces extend from the southern coast of Australia into East Antarctica when reconstructed in a Gondwana...the Terre Ad61ie and King George V Land coastline of East Antarctica, and the Miller Range of the central...underwent late Palaeoproterozoic tectonism along its eastern margin (the Kimban Orogeny) and the occurrence...noted alternative fits for the eastern fragments of India, Antarctica and Australia, both with one another
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
peak metamorphism: an example from the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica Naomi M. Tucker, Martin Hand, David...peak metamorphism: an example from the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica, Precambrian Research (2018), doi: https://doi...peak metamorphism: an example from the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica a a a,b c d Naomi M. Tucker *,...evolution of the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica. Metasedimentary rocks in the Bunger Hills record evidence...to constrain the metamorphic evolution of the Bunger Hills and to interpret these constraints within the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on P–T estimates in the Antarctica segment of the Musgrave–Albany–Fraser–Wilkes Orogen Short title: P–T...Abstract The Windmill Islands region in Wilkes Land, east Antarctica, preserves granulite facies metamorphic...Musgrave–Albany–Fraser–Wilkes Orogen. This shows that the metamorphic evolution of the Wilkes Land region is very...very similar to that of the eastern Albany–Fraser Orogen and Musgrave Province in Australia, and further...by copyright. All rights reserved. KEYWORDS: Antarctica, Windmill Islands, THERMOCALC. Albany–Fraser
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recycled microfossils in the Prydz Bay–Wilkes Land–Ross Sea–Marie Byrd Land sector (70°–240°E) J.J. Veevers...Hf-isotopes Erratics Recycled microfossils Ice-covered Antarctica a b s t r a c t The age and composition of the...west of the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) in the Wilkes Basin arguably by Late Cretaceous through Pliocene...undated red sandstone along the coast of Wilkes Land and George V Land indicate a red-bed provenance in...the Earth's land area) covered by ice: (1) detrital zircons in sediment shed from Antarctica (e.g., Belyatsky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Archean (Yilgarn) basement in the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica Naomi M. Tucker, Justin L. Payne, Chris...of Archean (Yilgarn) basement in the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica, Precambrian Research (2017), doi: http://dx...of Archean (Yilgarn) basement in the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica Naomi M. Tucker*a, Justin L. Paynea...+61 8 8313 4971 1 ABSTRACT The Bunger Hills in East Antarctica occupy a pivotal location as the westernmost...U–Pb, Lu–Hf and oxygen isotope data from the Bunger Hills reveal a previously unrecognised Archean basement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Editor: A.R.A. Aitken Keywords: Gondwana East Antarctica Kuunga Orogen Zircon age Hf-isotopes Reconstruction...affected all samples. The protolith to garnet–sillimanite–biotite paragneiss has a maximum deposition age...mapped from geophysical interpretations in Wilkes Land, Antarctica. New isotopic data suggest that basement...margins involve numerous microcontinents (e.g., east coast of Australia, Gaina et al., 1998) that affect the...spreading history between Greater India and Australia–Antarctica ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9850 8371
Report (chapter)
Archaean-Cambrian crustal development of East Antarctica: metamorphic characteristics and tectonic implications...Archaean-Cambrian crustal development of East Antarctica: metamorphic characteristics and tectonic implications...recognized from four distinct belts: the Dronning Maud Land, LtRzow-Holm Bay, Prydz Bay and Denman Glacier Belts...Neoproterozoic crustal provinces (Maud, Rayner and Wilkes), the Rauer Terrane, and have also marginally affected...Complex and southern Prince Charles Mountains. The Wilkes Province experienced its principal tectonothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
449464 Metamorphic evolution of the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica: evidence for substantial post-metamorphic...Vic. 3052, Australia ABSTRACT The Bunger Hills, East Antarctica, experienced a low-pressure granulite...garnet-cordieritespinel-ilmenite and garnet-sillimanite-spinel-ilmenite-rutile, in quartz-bearing pelitic...temperatures of about 750 T.Thus, the gneisses from the Bunger Hills indicate about 2 kbar or more of compression...normal thickness crust and the thin crust of the Bunger Hills is 'switched on' by the thermal perturbation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nimrod Orogeny in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: implications for Proterozoic plate reconstructions...April 2001 Abstract The Pacific margin of East Antarctica records a long tectonic history of crustal growth...geologic units elsewhere in present-day East Antarctica, southern Australia and southwestern North America...plate reconstructions joining ancestral East Antarctica with western Laurentia. © 2001 Elsevier Science...rights reserved. Keywords: Paleoproterozoic; Antarctica; Orogeny; Geochronology * Corresponding author
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205–224 The Terre Adélie basement in the East-Antarctica Shield: geological and isotopic evidence for...Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Antarctica; Australia; Monazite; Paleoproterozoic; Terre...299-281499; e-mail: peucat@univ-rennes1.fr In East Antarctica, the largest outcrops occur between 0 and 90°E...have been studied extensively ( Enderby Land, Dronning Maud Land, Transantarctic Belt). Except for the...restricted to the coast [Fig. 1(a)]. Most of the East Antarctic Shield, from western Queen Maud Land to Bunger
Report (chapter)
isotopic structure and implications for Australia−Antarctica correlations E. V. Mikhalsky, J. W. Sheraton...isotopic structure and implications for Australia –Antarctica correlations E. V. MIKHALSKY1*, J. W. SHERATON2...zones have their continuations in the eastern Amery Ice shelf coast. The Rayner Province has some geological...uk/SUP18621 The crystalline basement of East Antarctica comprises a few relatively small Archaean cratons...the CEAMB were first described in western Enderby Land by Kamenev et al. (1965) and Kamenev (1972). These
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Society, London, Special Publications Online First Antarctica and supercontinent evolution: historical perspectives...lyellcollection.org/ at UQ Library on October 15, 2014 Antarctica and supercontinent evolution: historical perspectives...and disperse through time. Correlations between Antarctica and other southern continents were critical to...evidence for Proterozoic connections between Antarctica and North America led to the ‘SWEAT’ configuration...to East Antarctica) for an early Neoproterozoic supercontinent known as Rodinia. Antarctica also contains
Report (volume)
southwestern Australia, and their correlation with Antarctica South Asia within the Gondwanaland ensemble DASGUPTA...Indo-Antarctic Correlation: a perspective from the Eastern Ghats Granulite Belt, India DOBMEIER, C. J. & RAITH... M. Crustal architecture and evolution of the Eastern Ghats Belt and adjacent regions of India BRAUN...evolution of southernmost India and Sri Lanka Antarctica and its role in the Gonwanaland assembly HARLEY...Archaean-Cambrian crustal development of East Antarctica: metamorphic characteriscs and tectonic implications
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Charnokitic Magmatism from the Obruchev Hills, BangerDenman Area (East Antarctica) N. L. Alexeeva, T. F. Zingerb...Rauer Islands and Vestfold Hills, igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Bunger Hills–Denman Glacier area, and...of the southern Prince Charles Mountains. The Bunger Hills–Denman Glacier area is located between longitude...E (Fig. 1). Compared with other areas of East Antarctica, it has been quite poorly studied. The reconstruction...lithology, the Bunger Hills–Denman Glacier area can be subdivided into two parts [1]: the eastern, extending
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ev i e r. c o m / l o c a t e / g r GR Focus Antarctica — Before and after Gondwana Steven D. Boger School...21 September 2010 Editor: M. Santosh Keywords: Antarctica Gondwana Tectonics Subduction Accretion Collision...nucleus centred on the Terre Adélie regions of East Antarctica and the Gawler Craton region of South Australia...collision added crust first to the Antarctic nucleus's eastern margin, then to its western margin. These events...Western Australia and its unnamed continuation in Antarctica. (3) Inversion of this margin followed shortly
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in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica: U–Pb zircon evidence for c. 3170 Ma granite...from the southern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica, consist of granitoid rocks of the Mawson Suite...Archaean; SHRIMP; Gondwana 1. Introduction East Antarctica as it appears today consists of an ancient cratonised...cratonised core surrounded on both the Dronning Maud Land and Transantarctic margins by a collage of younger...accreted terranes (Fig. 1). On the Dronning Maud Land side these addi∗ Corresponding author. Tel.: +61
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Regional/general 2.2.3.2 Kanjamalai hills 2.2.3.3 Mahadevi hills 2.2.3.4 Devathur shear zone 2.2.3.5...section 2.2.4 Madurai Granulite Block 2.2.4.1 Kadavur hills 2.2.4.2 NortheEastern part of Madurai Granulite...zone 2.2.6 Trivandrum Granulite Block References Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt 2.3.1 Introduction 2.3.2 Sileru...Shear Zone References 5. 282 301 311 East Antarctica 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Introduction The...The Vestfold Hills The Grove Mountains 315 317 342 345 347 358 361 5.8 The Bunger Hills References
Report (chapter)
Gawler–Adélie Craton in southern Australia and Antarctica, and crust of the Miller Range, Transantarctic...between the Mawson Continent and Shackleton Range (Antarctica), but the potential for Meso- to Neoproterozoic...of northwestern Laurentia and terrains in the eastern margin of proto-Australia. This chapter outlines...evolution of the Mawson Continent of Australia and Antarctica (Fig. 1). The Mawson Continent comprises the...Adélie and George V Land in Antarctica and various other terrains of East Antarctica (Fig. 1, Oliver &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orogen, and the Windmill Islands and Bunger Hills in east Antarctica. A major continuous Grenville-age orogenic...and rocks of the Windmill Islands and Bunger Hills in Antarctica. RE GI ONAL GEOLOGY The following summary...Orthopyroxene–garnet-bearing felsic gneiss and rare sillimanite–garnet-bearing metapelitic gneiss are consistent...are shown (dashed and dotted lines). EA, east Antarctica; WA, west Australia; NA, north Australia; Ga...Cordierite–spinel coronas that separate garnet from sillimanite (Clarke & Powell, 1991) are correlated with terrane-wide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to early Mesoproterozoic Ongole domain of the Eastern Ghats Belt in southeastern India is composed of...different fragments of Columbia (India, Australia, Antarctica and southwest Africa) indicate a protracted formation...formation of this supercontinent. KEYWORDS: Eastern Ghats Belt; Ongole domain; Magmatic arc; Ultrahigh-temperature...formation (e.g. Brown, 2006). The Eastern Ghats Belt along the eastern margin of the peninsular India is...The Ongole domain in the southern part of the Eastern Ghats Belt exposes a variety of granulite-facies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
257-266 A decompressional P-T path, Reinbolt Hills, East Antarctica G . T. NICHOLS AND R . F . B E R R Y Geology...ABSTRACT Granulites exposed in the Reinbolt Hills, East Antarctica, are part of the extensive Late Proterozoic...Proterozoic granulite complex of East Antarctica, which includes the Rauer Group to the east and the northern...erosion or extensional collapse. Key words: Antarctica; crustal thickening; decompression; granulites;...The Reinbolt Hills form part of a N-S-trending belt of nunataks, exposed on the eastern side of the Lambert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
margins of southeastern Australia and adjacent Antarctica T h o m a s F16ttmann, R o b i n Oliver Department...Gondwana. Accretion of outboard terranes along the eastern margin of the mobile belts appears to be preceded...resulted in southeastward transpression at its eastern margin, following obduction of oceanic crust, prior...of the margin of the Antarctic craton with the eastern margin of the Australian craton, in the Gondwana...review some of the geologic relationships along the eastern margin of the Austral-Antarctic craton, and present
Book
earth scientists in the scientific exploration of Antarctica can best be judged from the fact that 7 years...geology and solid earth geophysical literature of Antarctica. It is worth noting that two important differences...where earth scientists have but a fragment of Antarctica exposed to study and at times make, in some cases...parts of Antarctica, and the infuence of new plate tec¬ tonic thinking not only in Antarctica but in its...Adie freedom of the SCAR nations working in Antarctica, to give to SCAR his services, for the second
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from the southern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica: implications for the formation of Gondwana S...upper amphibolite facies garnet + biotite + sillimanite ± muscovite mineral assemblages that record peak...These results indicate that large areas of East Antarctica were thickened and rapidly exhumed, probably...Prydz Bay–Prince Charles Mountains region of East Antarctica marks one of the fundamental lithospheric boundaries...Gondwana. Key words: continent collision; East Antarctica; Gondwana; Pan-African; Prince Charles Mountains
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facies metamorphism in the Larsemann Hills area, East Antarctica; petrology and tectonic implications...granulite facies areas along the Pry& Bay coast, East Antarctica (73"-79"E,6&'-7o"s), show that, at around...the Prydz Bay coast, the racks affected by this event include parts of the Vestfold Hills block plus all...Larsemann Hills and the Munro Kerr Mountains. The dykes in the south-west corner of the Vestfold Hills were...800" C and 7.5 kbar (Harley, 1987a), the Larsemann Hills at 750" C and 4.5 kbar, and the Munro Kerr Mountains
 
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