Mineralogical and geochemical features of the Allan Hills tephra, South Victoria Land: Implications for mid-Pleistocene volcanic activity in Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Science
• Main Authors: Borisova, A., Jochum, K., Gouy, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Allan Hills; Antarctic; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-4B91-1

More than 100 volcanoes have been discovered in Antarctica, however, the sources of many Antarctic tephras are not yet constrained. In this study, four tephra samples recovered from the environment of Site 27 on an area of blue ice at Allan Hills, South Victoria Land, provide information on magma an...