Lanterman and Salamander Ranges

The K-Ar dates of the Wilson Gneisses of the Lanterman Range in Appendix 4.8.3.12 and in Fig. 4.18 indicate that biotite, muscovite, and hornblende reached their blocking temperature for radiogenic Ar 

The Salamander Range is located southeast of the Lanterman Range and is separated from the Freyberg Mountains by the upper Canham Glacier. The northern part of the Salamander Range consists of Wilson Gneisses which, in the southernmost part, is overlain by residual outcrops of the Beacon Supergroup and of the Kirkpatrick Basalt. 

Adams and Hohndorf (1991) reported a Rb-Sr whole-rock isochron date of 555 36 Ma ( Sr/ Sr). = 0.7158 0.0004 (Appendix 4.8.3.14 and Fig. 4.18). The dates and initial Sr/ Sr ratios of the Wilson Gneisses of the Salamander Range are within the errors of the Rb-Sr dates and initial Sr/ Sr ratios of the Wilson Gneisses in the Lanterman Range. Moreover, 

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The boundary between the Terra-Nova-Bay area and the main part of the Wilson terrane is not defined because the Ross Orogen continues from southern Victoria Land through the Terra-Nova-Bay area into the Wilson Terrane of northern Victoria Land without discernible interruption. The Wilson Terrane extends from the Terra-Nova-Bay area north to the Oates Coast of Antarctica and is separated from the Bowers Terrane by the Lanterman fault zone in Fig. 4.2. The Wilson Terrane extends east across the Renifick Glacier and includes the Lanterman and Salamander ranges which form its eastern province. ... 

In the next section, the geology of the Morozumi Range and of the Lanterman and Salamander Ranges will be discussed separately because their tectonic settings differ from that of the Daniels Range in the western province of the Wilson Terrane. 

Fig. 4.15 The Morozumi, Lanterman, and Salamander ranges extend from the western province of the Wilson Terrane across the Rennick Glacier to the Bowers and Robertson Bay Terranes. The principal lithologic units of the basement complex are iden-...

The comparison of the initial Sr/ Sr ratios in Fig. 4.17 supports the conclusion that the feldspar in the till of the Morozumi Range originated primarily from the Granite Harbor Intrusives (GHI) and not from the Rennick Schist (RS) and the Wilson Gneiss (WG) which are exposed in the Daniels Range and in the adjacent Lanterman and Salamander ranges in Fig. 4.14. 

Fig. 4.19 The Bowers Terrane occupies the central area of northern Victoria Land flanked by the Wilson Terrane in the west and the Robertson Bay Terrane in the east The major rock types of this segment of the Transantarctic Mountains are identified by capital letters in alphabetical order A = Admiralty Intmsives, B = Beacon Supergroup, BT = Bowers Terrane, G = Granite Harbor Intrusives, P = Galhpoli Porphyries, R = Robertson Bay Group, W = Wilson Group. The Kirkpatrick Basalt has been onritted from this map for the sake of clarity and the Ferrar Dolerite sills are included with the Beacon Supergroup. The Lanterman and Salamander ranges constitute the eastern province of the Wilson Terrane (Adapted from Gair et al. 1969)...

A second cluster of outcrops of Beacon rocks in Fig. 10.12 within the Rennick basin includes the Freyberg Mountains, the Morozumi Range, the HeUiwell Hills, as well as the Lanterman and Salamander ranges. The Beacon rocks of northern Victoria Land lie uncom-formably on the metasedimentary rocks of the basement... 

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