Abstract
The intermediate lavas of the Azores Archipelago are reinvestigated and compared with other lavas from oceanic islands. Using both published and new petrological data, it appears that the so-called andesites and latites are in fact hawaiites and tristanites.
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Girod, M., Lefevre, C. A propos des ≪andésites≫ des Açores. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 35, 159–167 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370926
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