Recent Thermal and Volcanic activity on Mount Melbourne, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica
- 1 May 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
- Vol. 10 (2) , 422-430
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1967.10426746
Abstract
Many small areas of hot steaming ground occur near the summit of Mt Melbourne, and small, almost undissected, basaltic cones and mounds are found on the flanks and in the crater of the volcano. All the recent volcanic landforms are composed of glassy trachyandesite. The presence of ash layers in ice-cliffs and nearby glaciers indicates that Mt Melbourne must have erupted within the last few thousand years, and the geomorphic evidence suggests a long period of activity before this.Keywords
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