Intraplate Volcanism and Submarine Volcanism

Intraplate Volcanism and Submarine Volcanism
Author: International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
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Oceanic Hotspots

Oceanic Hotspots
Author: Roger Hekinian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 364218782X

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Ocean Hotspots provides a comprehensive overview of recent and ongoing research on intraplate volcanism in the ocean basins with special emphasis on the Pacific Ocean. The geology of the seamounts and their associated seamount chains is described, along with detailed geophysical, geochemical and hydrothermal observations made by a multi-disciplinary group of marine geoscientists. These observations lead to a deeper understanding of how the ascending mantle melts, represented by hotspots, are able to penetrate the lithosphere, build seamounts, and enhance hydrothermal circulation. The "fixed" hotspot-generated seamount chains also provide key constraints on plate tectonic reconstructions on the Earth's crust.

Intraplate Volcanism

Intraplate Volcanism
Author: R. Wally Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1989-11-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521380836

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This study of the young volcanoes of eastern Australia and parts of New Zealand looks at rock types and formation and inclusions of the upper mantle and lower-crustal rocks found in volcanic deposits. It discusses the Earth's crust and the mantle beneath, and the geological evolution in the area over the last 70-80 million years.

Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-up

Volcanism in Antarctica: 200 Million Years of Subduction, Rifting and Continental Break-up
Author: J.L. Smellie
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2021-06-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 178620536X

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This memoir is the first to review all of Antarctica’s volcanism between 200 million years ago and the Present. The region is still volcanically active. The volume is an amalgamation of in-depth syntheses, which are presented within distinctly different tectonic settings. Each is described in terms of (1) the volcanology and eruptive palaeoenvironments; (2) petrology and origin of magma; and (3) active volcanism, including tephrochronology. Important volcanic episodes include: astonishingly voluminous mafic and felsic volcanic deposits associated with the Jurassic break-up of Gondwana; the construction and progressive demise of a major Jurassic to Present continental arc, including back-arc alkaline basalts and volcanism in a young ensialic marginal basin; Miocene to Pleistocene mafic volcanism associated with post-subduction slab-window formation; numerous Neogene alkaline volcanoes, including the massive Erebus volcano and its persistent phonolitic lava lake, that are widely distributed within and adjacent to one of the world’s major zones of lithospheric extension (the West Antarctic Rift System); and very young ultrapotassic volcanism erupted subglacially and forming a world-wide type example (Gaussberg).