Controlling influence of water and ice on eruptive style and edifice construction in the Mount Melbourne Volcanic Field (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

Controlling influence of water and ice on eruptive style and edifice construction in the Mount Melbourne Volcanic Field (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

The Mount Melbourne Volcanic Field (MMVF) is part of the West Antarctic Rift System, one of Earth’s largest intra-continental rift zones. It contains numerous small, compositionally diverse (alkali basalt–benmoreite) flank and satellite vents of Late Miocene–Pliocene age (≤12.50 Ma; mainly less than...

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Main Authors: J. L. Smellie, S. Rocchi, G. Di Vincenzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
glaciovolcanic
tuff cone
megapillow
A'ā lava
lava-fed delta
tuya
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.1061515/full

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