Late Miocene volcanic sequences in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Products of glaciovolcanic eruptions under different thermal regimes

Bulletin of Volcanology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-25

  Smellie, J L ^a,c   Rocchi, S ^b   Armienti, P ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aa lava fed deltas; Felsic sheet like sequences; Glacial thermal regime; Glaciovolcanism; Lithofacies; Miocene; Sequence architecture

Indexed keywords

AA LAVA; CAP ROCK; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EMPLACEMENT; GLACIOTECTONICS; LITHOFACIES; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; THERMAL REGIME; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 78651230163     PISSN: 02588900     EISSN: 14320819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00445-010-0399-y     Document Type: Article

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