Chapter 7.3 Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann

• Main Authors: Gambino, Salvatore, Armienti, Pietro, Cannata, Andrea, Del Carlo, Paola, Giudice, Gaetano, Giuffrida, Giovanni, Liuzzo, Marco, Pompilio, Massimo
• Other Authors: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione OE, Catania, Italia, Università degli studi di Pisa, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Pisa, Pisa, Italia, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Palermo, Palermo, Italia
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society, London, Memoirs 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Victoria Land; Mario Zucchelli; Mario Zucchelli Station; Mount Melbourne; Bogo; Rittmann; Mount Rittmann; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/14928; https://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/55/1/741

Mount Melbourne and Mount Rittmann are quiescent, although potentially explosive, alkaline volcanoes located 100 km apart in Northern Victoria Land quite close to three stations (Mario Zucchelli Station, Gondwana and Jang Bogo). The earliest investigations on Mount Melbourne started at the end of th...