Palmer Land and Graham Land volcanic groups (Antarctic Peninsula): Volcanology (Chapter 2.2a)

• Main Authors: Riley, Teal R., Leat, Philip T.
• Other Authors: Smellie, J.L., Panter, K.S., Geyer, A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; West Antarctica; Pacific; Graham Land; Palmer Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520187/; https://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/55/1/121

The break-up of Gondwana during the Early–Middle Jurassic was associated with flood basalt volcanism in southern Africa and Antarctica (Karoo–Ferrar provinces), and formed one of the most extensive episodes of continental magmatism of the Phanerozoic. Contemporaneous felsic magmatism along the proto...