Petrology and geochemistry of Easter Island

@article{Baker1974PetrologyAG,
  title={Petrology and geochemistry of Easter Island},
  author={Peter E. Baker and F. Buckley and James Grenville Holland},
  journal={Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology},
  year={1974},
  volume={44},
  pages={85-100}
}
Easter Island has developed around three volcanoes—Poike, an older (3 m.y.) strato-volcano, Rano Kau, a caldera, and the fissure complex of Terevaka and its associated cones. The lavas show a wide compositional spread from tholeiites and olivine tholeiites to hawaiites, mugearites, benmoreites, trachytes and rhyolites (comendites). Hawaiite is by far the most abundant rock type and trachytes and rhyolites are relatively rare. Intermediate and acid rocks are concentrated in the southwestern part… 
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