Basanite to tephrite lavas from Melbourne Volcanic Province, Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Authors: BECCALUVA, Luigi, COLTORTI, Massimo, SACCANI, Emilio, SIENA, Franca, CIVETTA L., ORSI G.
• Other Authors: Beccaluva, Luigi, Civetta, L., Coltorti, Massimo, Orsi, G., Saccani, Emilio, Siena, Franca
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Bardi Editore:via Piave 7, I 00186 Rome Italy:011 39 06 4817656, 011 39 6 68801442, EMAIL: [e-mail], INTERNET: http://space.tin.it/lettura/pabardi, Fax: [phone] 1990
• Subjects: Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Overlord; Cape Washington; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11392/463053

The Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism of Mt. Melbourne Province consists of predominant alkali-basalts and differentiated products, and subordinate basanite-tephrite lavas. Basanite to tephrite lavas, which are the object of detailed petrological studies in this paper, scoria cones and hyaloclastites ou...