Etruschi seamount

Etruschi Seamount Quaternary hawaiite (Etruschi) similar to Sardinia Plio-Quatemary volcanics. 

Rocks akin to the Ocean Island Basalts have been found at the Vavilov and Managhi seamounts, off the eastern Sardinian coast (Quirra and Etruschi seamounts and rocks drilled at ODP Site 654), and north and northwest of the western Sicily coast (Aceste seamount, Promoteo lava field and Ustica island Fig. 9.1). Ustica has been described in Chap. 8. 

Etruschi seamount. Basaltic fragments about 0.1 Ma old have been recovered from this site (Keller 1981). The rock is mostly glassy with a few small grains of olivine and acicular plagioclase crystals. 

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