The Recent volcanology of Terceira, Azores
@article{Self1976TheRV, title={The Recent volcanology of Terceira, Azores}, author={Stephen Self}, journal={Journal of the Geological Society}, year={1976}, volume={132}, pages={645 - 666} }
Terceira shows a great diversity of lavas and pyroclastics for an oceanic island and is noteworthy for voluminous production of peralkaline salic magma. Four volcanoes form the island; three are composed of both basic and salic rocks and one has only salic rocks exposed. Since the emergence of the island a compositionally bimodal population of rocks has been represented. The products of over 100 eruptions in the upper Terceira Group have been recognised. These include ignimbrites, pumice fall…
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