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The Pleiades (volcano group)

Index The Pleiades (volcano group)

The Pleiades are a volcanic group in northern Victoria Land of Antarctica. [1]

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  1. 97 relations: Alcyone and Ceyx, Anno Domini, Anorthoclase, Antarctic Research Centre, Antarctica, Apatite, Argon–argon dating, Atlas (mythology), Augite, Basalt, Basanite, Basement (geology), Beardmore Glacier, Benmoreite, Biotite, Blue-ice area, Bowers Group, Cenozoic, Cinder cone, Colbert Hills (Antarctica), Cretaceous, Crust (geology), Dike (geology), Essexite, Fault (geology), Fractional crystallization (geology), Fumarole, Geothermal energy, Granite, Granodiorite, Hawaiite, Hematite, Holocene, Ice core, Igneous intrusion, Kaersutite, K–Ar dating, Lady Newnes Bay, Lapilli, Last Interglacial, Latite, Lava, Lava dome, List of volcanoes in Antarctica, Magma chamber, Magnetite, Malta Plateau, Mantle (geology), Mariner Glacier, McMurdo Volcanic Group, ... Expand index (47 more) »

  2. Stratovolcanoes
  3. Volcanoes of Victoria Land

Alcyone and Ceyx

In Greek mythology, Alcyone (or dubiously Halcyone) (Alkyónē) and Ceyx (label) were a wife and husband who incurred the wrath of the god Zeus for their romantic hubris.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Anorthoclase

The mineral anorthoclase ((Na,K)AlSi3O8) is a crystalline solid solution in the alkali feldspar series, in which the sodium-aluminium silicate member exists in larger proportion.

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Antarctic Research Centre

The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Apatite

Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal.

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Argon–argon dating

Argon–argon (or 40Ar/39Ar) dating is a radiometric dating method invented to supersede potassiumndashargon (K/Ar) dating in accuracy.

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Atlas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Atlas (Ἄτλας, Átlās) is a Libyan god and a Titan in Greek mythology condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity in Libya after the Titanomachy.

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Augite

Augite, also known as Augurite, is a common rock-forming pyroxene mineral with formula.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Basanite

Basanite is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.

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Basement (geology)

In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.

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Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of.

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Benmoreite

Benmoreite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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Biotite

Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.

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Blue-ice area

A blue-ice area is an ice-covered area of Antarctica where wind-driven snow transport and sublimation result in net mass loss from the ice surface in the absence of melting, forming a blue surface that contrasts with the more common white Antarctic surface.

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Bowers Group

Bowers Group founded in 1915 manufacture test equipment and measuring instruments.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.

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Cinder cone

A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.

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Colbert Hills (Antarctica)

The Colbert Hills are a line of hills and bluffs, including Coalsack Bluff, lying east of Lewis Cliffs, between Law Glacier and Walcott Névé in Antarctica.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Dike (geology)

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.

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Essexite

Essexite, also called nepheline monzogabbro, is a dark gray or black holocrystalline plutonic igneous rock.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Fractional crystallization (geology)

Fractional crystallization, or crystal fractionation, is one of the most important geochemical and physical processes operating within crust and mantle of a rocky planetary body, such as the Earth.

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Fumarole

A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or another rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids.

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Geothermal energy

Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the Earth's crust.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Granodiorite

Granodiorite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar.

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Hawaiite

Hawaiite is an olivine basalt with a composition between alkali basalt and mugearite.

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Hematite

Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Ice core

An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.

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Igneous intrusion

In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.

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Kaersutite

Kaersutite is a dark brown to black double chain calcic titanium bearing amphibole mineral with formula: NaCa2(Mg3Ti4+Al)(Si6Al2)O22(O)2.

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K–Ar dating

Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.

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Lady Newnes Bay

Lady Newnes Bay is a bay about long in the western Ross Sea, extending along the coast of Victoria Land from Cape Sibbald to Coulman Island.

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Lapilli

Lapilli (lapillus) is a size classification of tephra, which is material that falls out of the air during a volcanic eruption or during some meteorite impacts.

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Last Interglacial

The Last Interglacial, also known as the Eemian (primarily used in a European context) among other names (including the Sangamonian, Ipswichian, Mikulino, Kaydaky, Valdivia, and Riss-Würm), was the interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacial Period.

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Latite

Latite is an igneous, volcanic rock, with aphanitic-aphyric to aphyric-porphyritic texture.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Lava dome

In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.

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List of volcanoes in Antarctica

This is a list of volcanoes in Antarctica.

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Magma chamber

A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth.

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Magnetite

Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula.

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Malta Plateau

The Malta Plateau is an ice-covered plateau of about extent in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Pleiades (volcano group) and Malta Plateau are volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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Mantle (geology)

A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.

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Mariner Glacier

The Mariner Glacier is a major glacier over long, descending southeast from the plateau of Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Mountaineer Range and Malta Plateau, and terminating at Lady Newnes Bay, Ross Sea, where it forms the floating Mariner Glacier Tongue.

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McMurdo Volcanic Group

The McMurdo Volcanic Group is a large group of Cenozoic volcanic rocks in the western Ross Sea and central Transantarctic Mountains areas of Antarctica. The Pleiades (volcano group) and McMurdo Volcanic Group are volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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Metasomatism

Metasomatism (from the Greek μετά metá "change" and σῶμα sôma "body") is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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Mount Melbourne

Mount Melbourne is a ice-covered stratovolcano in Victoria Land, Antarctica, between Wood Bay and Terra Nova Bay. The Pleiades (volcano group) and Mount Melbourne are volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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Mount Overlord

Mount Overlord is a very large mountain which is an extinct stratovolcano, situated at the northwest limit of Deception Plateau, 50 miles inland from the Ross Sea and just east of the head of Aviator Glacier in Victoria Land. The Pleiades (volcano group) and mount Overlord are volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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Mount Rittmann

Mount Rittmann is a volcano in Antarctica. The Pleiades (volcano group) and Mount Rittmann are volcanoes of Victoria Land.

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New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent.

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New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica.

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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.

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Oligoclase

Oligoclase is a rock-forming mineral belonging to the plagioclase feldspars.

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Olivine

The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula.

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Outback Nunataks

The Outback Nunataks are a series of bare rock nunataks and mountains which are distributed over an area about long by wide. The Pleiades (volcano group) and Outback Nunataks are Pennell Coast.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Phenocryst

Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif, has large white phenocrysts of plagioclase (that have trapezoid shapes when cut through). 1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.

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Phonolite

Phonolite is an uncommon shallow intrusive or extrusive rock, of intermediate chemical composition between felsic and mafic, with texture ranging from aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (mixed fine- and coarse-grained).

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Pleiades

The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, reflects an observed pattern formed by those stars, in an asterism of an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.

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Pleione (mythology)

Pleione (Πληιόνη or Πλειόνη) was an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology and mother of the Pleiades.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Pumice

Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.

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Pyroclastic rock

Pyroclastic rocks are clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions.

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Radiometric dating

Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed.

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Rennick Glacier

Rennick Glacier is broad glacier, nearly long, which is one of the largest in Antarctica.

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ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

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Ross orogeny

The Ross orogeny was a mountain building event in Antarctica in the early Paleozoic.

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Ross Sea

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth.

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Scoria

Scoria is a pyroclastic, highly vesicular, dark-colored volcanic rock formed by ejection from a volcano as a molten blob and cooled in the air to form discrete grains called clasts.

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Scree

Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.

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Siple Dome

Siple Dome is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica.

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Star cluster

Star clusters are large groups of stars held together by self-gravitation.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. The Pleiades (volcano group) and stratovolcano are Stratovolcanoes.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Syenite

Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (.

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Talos Dome

Talos Dome (sometimes spelled Thalos Dome) is a large ice dome rising to 2,300 m to the southwest of the Usarp Mountains in Antarctica.

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Taurus (constellation)

Taurus (Latin, 'Bull') is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the northern celestial hemisphere.

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Taygete

In Classical Greek mythology, Taygete (Ταϋγέτη) was a nymph, one of the Pleiades according to the Bibliotheca (3.10.1) and a companion of Artemis, in her archaic role as potnia theron, "Mistress of the animals", with its likely roots in prehistory.

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Taylor Glacier

The Taylor Glacier is a glacier in Antarctica about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills.

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Tephra

Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.

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Terrane

In geology, a terrane (in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.

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Trachyandesite

Trachyandesite is an extrusive igneous rock with a composition between trachyte and andesite.

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Trachyte

Trachyte is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar.

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Transantarctic Mountains

The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land.

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Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.

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Volcanic bomb

A volcanic bomb or lava bomb is a mass of partially molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.

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Volcanic cone

Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.

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Volcanic glass

Volcanic glass is the amorphous (uncrystallized) product of rapidly cooling magma.

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Volcanic group

A volcanic group is a stratigraphic group consisting of volcanic strata.

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West Antarctic Rift System

The West Antarctic Rift System is a series of rift valleys between East and West Antarctica.

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Xenolith

A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification.

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See also

Stratovolcanoes

Volcanoes of Victoria Land

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pleiades_(volcano_group)

Also known as Alcyone Cone, Aleyone Cone, Mount Atlas, Mount Pleiones, Pleiades (volcano group), Taygete Cone.

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