SOME PETROLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL AND GENETI C PECULIARITIES OF HYPABYSSAL ALKALINE ULTRABASIC ROCKS BY AN EXAMPLE OF POLZENITIC-ALKALINE PICRITIC COMPLEX OF JETTY OASIS (EASTERN ANTARCTIC, PRINCE-CHARLES MOUNTAINS)
Ls. Egorov, SOME PETROLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL AND GENETI C PECULIARITIES OF HYPABYSSAL ALKALINE ULTRABASIC ROCKS BY AN EXAMPLE OF POLZENITIC-ALKALINE PICRITIC COMPLEX OF JETTY OASIS (EASTERN ANTARCTIC, PRINCE-CHARLES MOUNTAINS), Geohimia, (1), 1994, pp. 24-39
Short geological, petrographical and geochemical description of alkali
ne ultrabasic hypabissal rocks of Jetty oasis in Eastern Antarctic is
presented. These rocks comprise a series of small stocks, sills and dy
kes amd form three successively formed groups: 1) rushaitic tuffisite
breccia; 2) polzenites; 3) alkaline picrites and olivine melanephelini
tes with nodules of abyssal peridotites of spinel and pyrop facies. So
me of reported rocks are characterised by the secondary enrichment in
potassium up to the predominantly potassium alkalinity as a result of
subsolidus autometasomatic phlogopitisation. The similar process is co
nsidered also as a factor of potassium enrichment of kimberlites. The
absence of connection of lamprophyric, kimberlitic and lamproitic diat
remes (explosive pipes) with the surface volcanism is argued.