Chapter 5.2a Erebus Volcanic Province: volcanology

Autor:	Adam P. Martin, John L. Smellie
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Rift biology Seamount Geology Volcanology Erebus biology.organism_classification Paleontology Volcano Scoria Mafic Submarine volcano
Zdroj:	Geological Society, London, Memoirs. 55:415-446
ISSN:	2041-4722 0435-4052
DOI:	10.1144/m55-2018-62
Popis:	The Erebus Volcanic Province is the largest Neogene volcanic province in Antarctica, extending c. 450 km north–south and 170 km wide east–west. It is dominated by large central volcanoes, principally Mount Erebus, Mount Bird, Mount Terror, Mount Discovery and Mount Morning, which have sunk more than 2 km into underlying sedimentary strata. Small submarine volcanoes are also common, as islands and seamounts in the Ross Sea (Terror Rift), and there are many mafic scoria cones (Southern Local Suite) in the Royal Society Range foothills and Dry Valleys. The age of the volcanism ranges between c. 19 Ma and present but most of the volcanism is
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