Late Miocene valley-confined subglacial volcanism in northern Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Bulletin of Volcanology
• Main Authors: Smellie, John L., Hole, M.J., Nell, P.A.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1993
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Alexander Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518066/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00624355

Isolated, Late Miocene volcanogenic sequences in northern Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula, form an unusual, cogenetic association of volcaniclastic, sandy-gravelly lithofacies (including tillites) and volcanic (lava/hyalocalstite) lithofacies. Using simple lithofacies analysis and theoretical...