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Macquarie Island: A window into the oceanic crust and upper mantle

Created 13/03/2025

Updated 13/03/2025

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Because of the inaccessibility of the deep-ocean floor, our knowledge about the composition and structure of the oceanic crust is very limited. Macquarie Island is the only fragment of ocean crust exposed above sea-level in the world, providing a unique opportunity to study the ocean crust directly in unprecedented detail. From the abstract of the referenced paper: Macquarie Island preserves largely in-situ Miocene oceanic crust and mantle formed at a slow-spreading ridge. The crustal section on the island does not conform to a simple 'layer cake pseudo-stratigraphy', but is the result of multiple magmatic episodes. Macquarie Island crust did not grow by top-down cooling, but rather from the base up. Peridotites cooled first and formed the basement into which gabbro plutons were intruded. This was followed by cooling and deformation, and by intrusion of dykes that fed a sheeted dyke-basalt complex. Finally, lava filled grabens were formed. These relative age relations rule out simple co-genetic relations between rock units.

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Title Macquarie Island: A window into the oceanic crust and upper mantle
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/b56bb3af-d5ae-4fa7-b903-b9d942eb96b2
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CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
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Reference Period 21/10/2002 - 28/03/2003
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [158.0, -54.0]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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