Rayner Complex, Mac Robertson Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarcticai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Rayner Complex | Complex |
| Mac Robertson Land | - not defined - |
| Eastern Antarctica | Region |
| Antarctica | Continent |
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Latitude & Longitude:
70° South , 65° East (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~346km
Locality type:
The Australian Stratigraphic Units Database describes the Rayner Complex as: "[e]xtends over 1000km from Enderby Land to Princess Elizabeth Land; is well exposed at Prince Charles Mountains and SW Prydz Bay. High-grade metamorphic rocks, reworked during late Neoproterozoic/Cambrian granulite facies metamorphism accompanied by widespread charnockitic and granitic magmatism at 1000 to 900 Ma."
"Painted Gneiss": Archaean (reworked during Proterozoic orogeny 1100 Ma ago) metapelite interlayered with orthogneisses and charnockites.
Presence of granitic partial melts.
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| β Almandine Formula: Fe2+3Al2(SiO4)3 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Cordierite Formula: (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Enstatite Formula: Mg2Si2O6 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Hercynite Formula: Fe2+Al2O4 Description: Surrounded by sillimanite and almandine, or cordierite coronas. Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Ilmenite Formula: Fe2+TiO3 Description: Surrounded by sillimanite and/or almandine coronas. Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β 'K Feldspar' Formula: KAlSi3O8 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Magnetite Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β 'Plagioclase' Formula: (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Quartz Formula: SiO2 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Rutile Formula: TiO2 Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
| β Sillimanite Formula: Al2(SiO4)O Reference: Eur. J. Mineral. , 1991, 3, pp. 367-386. |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | Hercynite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Al2O4 |
| β | Ilmenite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2+TiO3 |
| β | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
| β | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| β | Rutile | 4.DB.05 | TiO2 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| β | Almandine | 9.AD.25 | Fe2+3Al2(SiO4)3 |
| β | Cordierite | 9.CJ.10 | (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) |
| β | Enstatite | 9.DA.05 | Mg2Si2O6 |
| β | Sillimanite | 9.AF.05 | Al2(SiO4)O |
| Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc. | |||
| β | 'K Feldspar' | - | KAlSi3O8 |
| β | 'Plagioclase' | - | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | β Enstatite | Mg2Si2O6 |
| O | β Almandine | Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3 |
| O | β Cordierite | (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) |
| O | β Sillimanite | Al2(SiO4)O |
| O | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | β Plagioclase | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
| O | β K Feldspar | KAlSi3O8 |
| O | β Ilmenite | Fe2+TiO3 |
| O | β Rutile | TiO2 |
| O | β Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
| O | β Hercynite | Fe2+Al2O4 |
| Na | Sodium | |
| Na | β Plagioclase | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | β Enstatite | Mg2Si2O6 |
| Mg | β Cordierite | (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | β Almandine | Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Al | β Cordierite | (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) |
| Al | β Sillimanite | Al2(SiO4)O |
| Al | β Plagioclase | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
| Al | β K Feldspar | KAlSi3O8 |
| Al | β Hercynite | Fe2+Al2O4 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | β Enstatite | Mg2Si2O6 |
| Si | β Almandine | Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Si | β Cordierite | (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) |
| Si | β Sillimanite | Al2(SiO4)O |
| Si | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | β Plagioclase | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
| Si | β K Feldspar | KAlSi3O8 |
| K | Potassium | |
| K | β K Feldspar | KAlSi3O8 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | β Plagioclase | (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8 |
| Ti | Titanium | |
| Ti | β Ilmenite | Fe2+TiO3 |
| Ti | β Rutile | TiO2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | β Almandine | Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3 |
| Fe | β Cordierite | (Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18) |
| Fe | β Ilmenite | Fe2+TiO3 |
| Fe | β Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
| Fe | β Hercynite | Fe2+Al2O4 |
References
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Year (asc) Year (desc) Author (A-Z) Author (Z-A)Waters, D.J. (1991) Hercynite-quartz granulites; phase relations, and implications for crustal processes. European Journal of Mineralogy, 3(2), 367-386.
Horie, K., Hokada, T., Motoyoshi, Y., Shiraishi, K., Hiroi, Y., Takehara, M. (2016) UβPb zircon geochronology in the western part of the Rayner Complex, East Antarctica. Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 111(2), 104β117.
Dunkley, Daniel J. (1998) The Rayner Complex in MacRobertson Land, east Antarctica. PhD thesis, Department of Geology and Geophysics The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
External Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Enderby_Land
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1525-1314.1987.tb00366.x
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/lithosphere/article/10/4/523/530505/eastern-ghats-province-india-rayner-complex
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324633977_Eastern_Ghats_Province_India-Rayner_Complex_Antarctica_accretion_Timing_the_event
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-rayner-complex-of-east-antarctica--complex-isotopic-systematics-within-a-proterozoic-mobile-belt(0dbe6f54-a283-4d1d-af15-28318b79e43f).html
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmps/111/2/111_150811/_pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0016852111060057
https://books.google.be/books?id=D0zjDidZnO4C&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=%22rayner+complex%22&source=bl&ots=8k_w193pFM&sig=ACfU3U1xny4vOmUv4kTN9-9jxqOokOXKAw&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj08szZt5vkAhUBZ1AKHbvtDjcQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22rayner%20complex%22&f=false
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/archaean-crust-in-the-rayner-complex-of-east-antarctica-oygarden-group-of-islands-kemp-land/2FBA9C37A5AB08E687216CB6B983D173
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1525-1314.1987.tb00366.x
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/lithosphere/article/10/4/523/530505/eastern-ghats-province-india-rayner-complex
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324633977_Eastern_Ghats_Province_India-Rayner_Complex_Antarctica_accretion_Timing_the_event
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-rayner-complex-of-east-antarctica--complex-isotopic-systematics-within-a-proterozoic-mobile-belt(0dbe6f54-a283-4d1d-af15-28318b79e43f).html
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmps/111/2/111_150811/_pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS0016852111060057
https://books.google.be/books?id=D0zjDidZnO4C&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=%22rayner+complex%22&source=bl&ots=8k_w193pFM&sig=ACfU3U1xny4vOmUv4kTN9-9jxqOokOXKAw&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj08szZt5vkAhUBZ1AKHbvtDjcQ6AEwB3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22rayner%20complex%22&f=false
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/archaean-crust-in-the-rayner-complex-of-east-antarctica-oygarden-group-of-islands-kemp-land/2FBA9C37A5AB08E687216CB6B983D173
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