Ostracoda (Myodocopina) of Tutuila, American Samoa
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Age and Evolution of the Volcanoes of Tutuila , American Samoa 1
Tutuila is a basaltic volcanic island within the east southeasterly trending Samoa Island chain in the Pacific Ocean. Potassium-argon ages on 38 whole rock samples oflavas and intrusives demonstrate that the main period of subaerial volcanism occurred over a relatively short interval of about 0.6 Ma in the Early Pleistocene. The major shield volcano, Pago, was built between about 1.54 and 1.28 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pacific Science
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1534-6188
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2006.0008