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Syenite from
Dorrel Rock, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Type:Syenite
Age information
Maximum recorded age:28 ± 2 Ma
Minimum recorded age:28 ± 2 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
128 ± 2 MaOligocene -
Sample references:
1 -
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.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Syenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dorrel Rock, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1325587
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1325587:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
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.
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/AR048pp.235-137
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.
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/mpar4p.5
 
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