Products and processes in Pliocene-Recent, subaqueous to emergent volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula: examples of englacial Surtseyan volcano construction

• Published in: Bulletin of Volcanology
• Main Authors: Smellie, J.L., Hole, M.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1997
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Glacial Lake; Seal Nunataks; Beethoven peninsula; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514710/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s004450050167

Pliocene–Recent volcanic outcrops at Seal Nunataks and Beethoven Peninsula (Antarctic Peninsula) are remnants of several monogenetic volcanoes formed by eruption of vesiculating basaltic magma into shallow water, in an englacial environment. The diversity of sedimentary and volcanic lithofacies pres...