XIX.—The Petrography of Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen is so inaccessible and so infrequently visited that very little geological and petrographical work has been done on the island. Some rocks were collected during the Austrian “Pola Expedition” of 1882–3; and these were described by Scharizer as porphyritic olivine basalts, with one example...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1926
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800016161 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800016161 |