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

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: J. L. Smellie, S. Rocchi, G. Di Vincenzo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
• Subjects: glaciovolcanic; tuff cone; megapillow; A'ā lava; lava-fed delta; tuya; Science; Q; Antarctic; Cones The; Cones, The; Mount Melbourne; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1061515; https://doaj.org/article/e967ab6483e04efa849c87a87b09c764

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...