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Basalt from
Low Head, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica


Locality type:Headland
Classification
Type:Basalt
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Basalt data
Locality Data:Click here to view Low Head, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1325961
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1325961:5
GUID (UUID V4):45e5a44b-dfd3-4aec-a96c-10b69b671cdd
Nearest other occurrences of Basalt
22.6km (14.0 miles) Ezcurra Inlet, Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
43.6km (27.1 miles) Fildes peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
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marginal basin volcanism, Bransfield Strait, Antarctica Randall A. Keller a, Martin R. Fisk a, William...separating the South Shetland Islands from the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula. Quaternary volcanism...element concentrations and, frequently, lower Nb. Low-pressure fractional crystallization accounts for...its source. Some of the lavas have R b / S r too low to account for their S7Sr/S6Sr, perhaps due the loss...remained constant during the transition from Tertiary island arc volcanism to Quaternary marginal basin volcanism
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Supermountains atop the 700–500 Ma East African-Antarctic Orogen. Another primary provenance, the 140–95...primary sediment from the 700–500 Ma East African-Antarctic Orogen and the ancestral Gamburtsev Subglacial...Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, East African-Antarctic Orogen NU 1. Introduction MA We test the hypothesis...Transgondwanan Supermountains of East Africa /Antarctica (Squire et al., 2006) by making isotopic analyses...component‖. The inferred provenance was ice-covered Antarctica, since confirmed by southerly paleocurrents in
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189 References 189 Conjugate margins of the South Atlantic: Namibia-Pelotas 203 Joe Cartwright,...385 429 Contents Chapter 12 Evolution of the Western Mediterranean 437 E. Carminati, C. Doglioni,...D. Scrocca 12.1 Introduction 437 12.2 The western Mediterranean sub-basins 438 12.3 Lithospheric...velocities 455 12.4 Geodynamic evolution of the Western Mediterranean area 457 References 462 Chapter... Contents Section 1.2 Transform margins Chapter 15 South Africa's offshore Mesozoic basins 535 D.S. Broad
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------Puerto Rico -----------------------------South Carolina --------------------------.Tennessee -...-------Oklahoma -------------------------------South Dakota ---------------------------Texas -------...-------Wyoming -------------------------------Western region ------------------------------Multistate...---------------Environmental assessment with application to Western coal development __________ _ Land-Use Data and...------Yemen Arab Republic -------------------Antarctica _----------'----- __________________ _ 216 217
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natural and anthropogenic Hg and Pb on the Faroe Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...fumarolic condensates and thermal waters from Vulcano Island, Italy: Implications for evolution of volcanic...Y-81020: General implications for the formation of low-FeO porphyritic chondrules in CO chondrites . . ...geochemistry of the McMurdo dry valleys lakes, Antarctica: Clues to the origin of solutes and lake evolution...weathering rates in a humid tropical watershed: Nsimi, South Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China George Olshevsky San Diego, United States Section 4 The...Earth's tilt brings the midday sun overhead north or south of the equator at different times of year, creating..."light" rocks-largely granite below continents and basalt below oceans. Oceans cover about 71 percent of...(left) A In 1856 John Pratt argued that B high and low mountains were blocks of rocks of different density...density floating above the same base level. 8 Sir George Airy thought that different heights showed blocks-of
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meltwater and moulins; the Greenland Ice Sheet; the Antarctic Ice Sheet five million square miles of ice, one...mountain ranges into jagged peaks, then down to low hills and finally back to flat valleys once more...pit of such a volcano as Kilauea in the Hawaiian Islands, one sees eddying lava that represents the top...relations between the earth and majestically over his head. The idea that the other bodies in space. There... Canadian shield), western Australia, the Ukraine, and on the Kola Peninsula in the Soviet Union. Their
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Cover The cover photo is of a portion of France’s western coastline in the province of Normandy. The sea... as explained in chapter 14. The steep, rugged island seen through the arch is a sea stack. BRIEF CONTENTS...and after aerial photos of damage to a barrier island in New Jersey caused by Superstorm Sandy. Box 14...students a birds-eye view of spectacular geology from western North America. Original land surface Sea cliff...Morrison, Cowley County College Ravindra Nandigam, South Texas College Doreena Patrick, The Richard Stockton
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... ... Main mineral locations, northwest and western Tasmania Main mineral locations, Waratah area ...with the Department of Mines, who passed it on to George Everard and then to Bill Baker (both Department...Kara (Sorrell and Bottrill, 2005). Zeolites of western Tasmania were reviewed by Sutherland and Bottrill...Resources Tasmania. 5 ;... U) ~ in Island ~ ~ Flinders Island "1\ c:. TASM A GEOLOGICAL FR ME...sedimentary rocks and basalt D Neoproterozoio-Early Cambrian sedimentary rocks and basalt Neoproterozoic
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Distribution Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS..._ Central region___.. .____._.......___.__.__ Western region_________________________ Special water-resource...resolution radiometer VLF. _______ ____________ very low frequency V______ _______ ______ .velocity of P-waves..."typical" turbidite features is due to the absence of a head or a tail of these continuous turbidity currents...on the dry basis and Btu is roughly around 8,000. Low-grade chromrte resources Chromite, the only ore
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Distribution Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria, VA 22304 CONTENTS..._ Central region___.. .____._.......___.__.__ Western region_________________________ Special water-resource...resolution radiometer VLF. _______ ____________ very low frequency V______ _______ ______ .velocity of P-waves..."typical" turbidite features is due to the absence of a head or a tail of these continuous turbidity currents...on the dry basis and Btu is roughly around 8,000. Low-grade chromrte resources Chromite, the only ore
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availability and predicted water-level declines within the basalt aquifers of the Horse Heaven Hills, southcentral...in the Columbia Plateau-----------------WA-282 Basalt waste-isolation coordination--------------------------WA-289...models for small basins in metropolitan areas of western Washington---------------------------------------------WA-305...310 Effects of the release from Spirit Lake on South Fork Coldwater Valley--------------------------...Evaluation of ground-water resources in southwest King CountyWA-319 Influence of sediment from the 1980
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basement gneiss beneath the Coastal Plain sequence, Island Beach State Park, N.J., by D. L. Southwick ___...laumontite in Cretaceous sedimentary rocks in western Alaska, by J. M. Hoare, W. H. Condon, and W. W...beryllium in rhyolitic tuff at Spor Mountain, western Juab County, Utah, by D. R. Shawe, Wayne Mountjoy...of zeolite deposits in tuffaceous rocks of the western Mojave Desert and vicinity, California, by R. A...by Kenneth Segerstrom______ 126 Ancient lake in western Kentucky and southern Illinois, by W. I. Finch
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(National Science Museum of Japan), Q. B. Hendey (South African Museum), J. A. Jensen (Brigham Young University)...M. Philip (University of Sydney), N. S. Pledge (South Australian Museum), D. E. Savage (University of...million years before mammoths ranged from Europe to South America, or before man learned to wield stone weapons...caves of the semiarid southwestern United States, South America, New Zealand, and Australia. Cave-dwelling...almost as good a preservative as ice. In 1907 the head, forelegs, and a large part of the skin of a woolly
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SPOKANE, Washington-U.S. Post Office....................... . Aquifer systems of the Western United States .................................................................... . Caribbean Islands .................................................................................. 10. Hydraulic head difference between the water table and the lower...development of two major aquifer systems in the Western United States.................................
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C*C o1»^ 1 CidlT Port Davey SRum bun®’ ■ ISLAND fUN?r« TASMAN IA 5 sketch lowing location of...Blackwells Road; Pear Hill; Fossil Bluff; Bellerive; King William Range; Pyramid Hill; I 1 I CONCLUSION...a more compact area. Due to its isolation as an island, Tasmania has many unique items in both its vegetation...above sea level and are scattered all over the island with a high central tableland. Rain forests frequently...the mountain slopes, particularly in the west and south and, coupled with deep river gorges, pose difficulties
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Sgnderborg, and 27. Ténder amt. 1-13 ®erne (the Islands). second; where there are common Nord-Norge...(special status according to law of 1922) fylke. (South Norway). Skane Counties: 1. Malmohus lan 2. Kristianstads...the old division of Iceland. 1 -8 Sydsverige (South Sweden). 9-18 Mellansverige (Central Sweden). 19-24...Bornholm 100, Solid geology of Jylland and the Islands 101, The Quaternary glacial periods 102, Stratigraphy...SORTS TOO 103 Glacial landscapes 103 The hill islands of West Jylland 103, Outwash plains 104, Colonization
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Animal and Plant Migrations The Pleistocene in South America Classification Forests and Nomenclature...Bedruthan Steps, Cornwall The west coast of South Island, New Zealand The Niragongo The crater of Vulcano...canyon, a coastal plain, or an ice-sheet on Antarctica. Thus geology meets one great need of our mobile...atmosphere is also a natural laboratory for the study of low pressures and cosmic radiations. The earliest meteorological...in an airplane's take-off. At the approach of a low pressvue storm centre sensitive or aiUng people may
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176—dc22 2009043136 On the cover: Tyrannosaurus rex, “king of the tyrant lizards,” reigned during the Jurassic...Choice/Getty Images p. 12 © www.istockphoto.com / Robert King; pp. 23, 102, 140, 209, 275, 277, 279 © www. istockphoto...continents: Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. This continental rift was caused by numerous geologic...continent of Africa was once joined with modern-day South America and that huge igneous and metamorphic rock... and Australia, which was still connected to Antarctica.) The Cretaceous climate was warmer than today
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distributed, from within the Arctic Circle to the Antarctic and from below sea level to altitudes of several...Adaptation: Physiological Africa, North Africa, South: Archaeological Caves Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa:...America, Central America, Central and Caribbean Islands: Biospeleology America, Central: Archaeological... North: History America, South America, South: Biospeleology America, South: History Amphibia Amphibia:...Amphibia: Proteus Anchialine Habitats Annelida Antarctica Appalachian Mountains, United States Arachnida Arachnida:
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GEOHYDROLOGY OF THE ISLAND OF OAHU, HAWAII ZUSGS science fora changing world Kauai HAWAII Niihau...SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. SPOKANE, Washington U.S. Post Office Bldg...Missouri 1400 Independence Rd. Geohydrology of the Island of Oahu, Hawaii By CHARLES D. HUNT, JR. REGIONAL...Publications Data Hunt, Charles D., Geohydrology of the island of Oahu, Hawaii / by Charles D. Hunt, Jr. p. cm.......................................... Koolau Basalt...............................................
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AUTHOR OF A SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS VOLCANOES REPORTS OF WILKES'S EXPLORING EXPEDITION...Hayden, ClarCaptain Wheeler and others, and earlier, King, those especially of ence the Pacific Railroad Explorations...Appalachian Mountain structure has been shown by Clarence King, Dr. G. M. Dawson, and R. G. McConNELL to have been...and Professor H. S. Williams the Jurassic, of western America, to Professor A. Hyatt the Cretaceous,...distribution of the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of western America was prepared with the assistance of Mr
 
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