 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phonolite Lavas at Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica by P. R. KYLE 1 , J. A. MOORE 1 , AND M. F. THIRLWALL...October 1991) ABSTRACT Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica, is an active, intraplate, alkaline volcano....crystallization process. The large volume of phonolite at Mt. Erebus requires significant basanite production...on the western margin of the Ross Embayment, Antarctica. MVG rocks in the McMurdo Sound area comprise...and trachyte (Kyle, 1990b). Ross Island comprises Mt. Erebus, an active, 3974 m high composite volcano |  | Naish, T.R., Powell, R.D., Barrett, P.J., Levy, R.H., Henrys, S., Wilson, G.S., Krissek, L.A., Niessen, F., Pompilio, M., Ross, J., Scherer, R., Talarico, F., Pyne, A., , (2007) Late Cenozoic Climate History of the Ross Embayment from the AND-1B Drill Hole: Culmination of Three Decades of Antarctic Margin Drilling. Open-File Report Vol. 2007 (2007-1047-KP-07) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20071047kp07 | Report (issue) | | and the 10th ISAES editorial team, eds. (2008). Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World. Proceedings...phytoplankton productivity, and retreat of the glaciers on land. Because of the paucity of exposed rock, the direct...cored, the late 1 Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand...understand the more recent glacial history of Antarctica by drilling close to the margin. Ironically,...debris from the last glacial advance 71 72 ANTARCTICA: A KEYSTONE IN A CHANGING WORLD Table 1: Antarctic |  | | Book | | 1985 with his map of the McMurdo Sound area of Antarctica. We are pleased to republish these paintings...Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar Research Center 1465 Mt. Vernon Ave. Marion, Ohio 43302 USA mensing.1@osu...camp in the Mesa Range of northern Victoria Land at the foot of Mt. Masley. Printed on acid-free paper...during the 1969/1970 field season. Prolog Antarctica! The very word brings to mind images of fierce...winds, bone-chilling cold, and utter desolation. Antarctica has the reputation of being a hostile place unfit |  | | Report (issue) | | microcline samples. All samples also contain a sanidine component, derived from Tertiary volcanic centers...fractions and single grains of microcline and sanidine indicate that these Holocene dunes have provenances...soil carbonates suggest that the climate in the eastern Mojave desert has become warmer and drier since...highly alkalic potassium-rich magmatism at the eastern Baikal Rift System was controlled by a gradual...three geographic sections: western, central and eastern. Data indicate that the western part of the field |
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