- Acronym
- PNRA_geology
- Code
- PNRA 2010/A2.08
- Anno
- 2011
- Research area
- Earth science
- Specific research topic
- Volcanic rocks and mantle xenoliths
- Region of interest
- Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica
- PI
- Massimo Coltorti
- PI establishment
- Università di Ferrara
- Institutional website
- https://disap.unife.it/it
- Other institutions and subjects involved
- Università di Catania
- Consistency of the research team
- Massimo Coltorti e Pier Paolo Giacomoni (Università di Ferrara), Carmelo Ferlito (Università di Catania)
- Project status
- Completed
- Main stations used
- MZS
- The project
Il progetto ha come finalità la ricerca, campionatura e studio di xenoliti o noduli mantellici trasportati in superficie come inclusi nelle lave, nei depositi piroclastici o in neck, dicchi e sill associati all’attività vulcanica cenozoica. Le aree che si indagheranno sono: Baker Rocks (sia la morena che la spiaggia), Harrow Peaks, Greene Point, Mount Overlord, Parasite Cone, Navigator Nunatak, Cape Hallett, Coulman Island, Mandible Cirque, Random Hills, Handler Ridge, Mount Finch, Eldridge Bluff, Cape Washington, Cape King, Apostrophe Island, Shield Nunatak, Tinker Nunatak, Malta Plateau, Mount Rittmann e Mount Melbourne.
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- Motivation, importance of research
- Objectives of the proposal
- Activities carried out and results achieved
- Products
- Giacomoni P.P., Bonadiman C., Casetta F., Faccini B., Ferlito C., Ottolini L., Zanetti A. and Coltorti M. (2020) Long-term storage of subduction-related volatiles in northern Victoria Land lithospheric mantle: insight from olivine-hosted melt inclusions from McMurdo basic lavas (Antarctica). Lithos 378-379, 105826.
- Coltorti M., Bonadiman C., Casetta F., Faccini B., Giacomoni P.P., Pelorosso B. and Perinelli C. (2023) Nature and evolution of the northern Victoria Land lithospheric mantle (Antarctica) as revealed by ultramafic xenoliths. In: Martin A.P. and van der Wal W. (eds), The Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Antarctic Mantle. Geol. Soc. London Mem. 56, 57-82.