Intraplate Volcanism: In Eastern Australia and New ZealandR. Wally Johnson, Jan Knutson, Stuart Ross Taylor, Australian Academy of Science This is a major, definitive, landmark study of the young volcanoes of eastern Australia and parts of New Zealand. It deals with the rock types and origin of the volcanoes as well as the inclusions of the upper mantle and lower-crustal rocks found in the volcanic deposits. Fifty-nine authors contribute a wide range of chapters dealing with the significance of the volcanoes, the insights the area offers about the nature and origin of the earth's crust and the mantle beneath, and the geological evolution of eastern Australia and New Zealand over the past 70-80 million years. University academics and earth scientists in industry will be interested in this book, which will also serve as a highly useful reference work for undergraduate and graduate students. |
Contents
8 | 2 |
5 | 9 |
Dynamic uplift | 25 |
5 7 | 51 |
Pahoehoe and aa lavas | 63 |
East Australian Volcanic Geology | 89 |
Robertson and J D Hollis | 101 |
New Zealand Intraplate Volcanism | 157 |
6 1 | 244 |
Xenoliths and Megacrysts of Eastern Australia | 249 |
94 | 287 |
Towards a General Model | 290 |
References | 355 |
2050 | 360 |
Physical Volcanology | 361 |
397 | |
Other editions - View all
Intraplate Volcanism: In Eastern Australia and New Zealand Robert Wallace Johnson Limited preview - 1989 |
Intraplate Volcanism: In Eastern Australia and New Zealand Robert Wallace Johnson No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
abundant activity alkali basalt appear associated Auckland basanite Basin Cainozoic central centres common commonly complex compositions cones consistent contain continental crust dated deposits developed dominated dykes east east-Australian eastern Australia enrichment eruption et al evidence Ewart example extensive felsic field Figure flows fractionation Griffin Group hawaiite highlands Hill increases intermediate intraplate intrusions Island isotopic lava flows lavas less leucitite lherzolite lithosphere lower mafic magma major mantle margin melting Mg-ratios minerals minor Mount nephelinite northern olivine origin peralkaline percent phenocrysts phonolite plate plugs present processes produced province pyroclastic pyroxene Queensland qz-tholeiitic basalt range rare region relationships relatively represent result rhyolite rock types rocks samples sediments sequence similar South Wales southern spinel Table temperatures thick tholeiitic basalts trachyte transitional trends uplift values volcanic volcanic rocks volcaniclastic volume Wellman western xenoliths Zealand zone
Popular passages
Page 388 - Wood, DA, 1980, The application of a Th-Hf-Ta diagram to problems of tectonomagmatic classification and to establishing the nature of crustal contamination of basaltic lavas of the British Tertiary volcanic province: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v.