Phonolitic Diatremes within the Dunedin Volcano, South Island, New Zealand

The Port Chalmers Breccia is a vent-filling, clastic volcanic unit exposed within the Miocene Dunedin Volcano of South Island, New Zealand. Clasts (up to in excess of 1 m but generally 520 cm) are supported in ash and fine lapilli of phonolitic (ne-benmoreite or tephro-phonolite) composition and the...

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Main Authors: Richard C. Price, Alan F. Cooper, Jon D. Woodhead, Ian Cartwright
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.495.4198
http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/11/2053.full.pdf