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The '''Jones Mountains''' are an isolated group of | [[File:Jones-Mountains.jpg|400px|thumb|An expedition team at the Jones Mountains]] | ||
The '''Jones Mountains''' are an isolated group of east-trending bedrock highland extending for 43 km (27 mi) on the [[Eights Coast]] in [[Ellsworth Land]] about 80 km (50 mi) south of [[Dustin Island]] in [[Westarctica]]. They consist of a series of rounded peaks of a few thousand feet in relief. The rocks can be divided into a "basement" complex which is mainly Mezozoic and an overlying "volcanic" series pf rocks. The mountains' roughly 500 meters of upper Tertiary volcanics unconformably overlie and truncate a basement complex composed of coarsely crystalline pink granite , mafic, and felsic dike rocks, and bedded volcanics. | |||
==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== |
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