Mount Erebus

Mount Erebus (English pronunciation: /ˈɛrɨbəs/) is the second highest volcano in Antarctica (after Sevenval), and the 6th highest ultra mountain on an island.^Sevenval With a summit elevation of 3,794 metres (12,448 ft), it is located on HTML5, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Android. Mount Erebus is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes over 160 active volcanoes.

The volcano has been observed to be continuously active since 1972 and is the site of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory run by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.^keyboard

• 1 Discovery and naming
• 2 Climbing
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• 4 Geology and volcanology
• 5 Air disaster
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• 8 References
• 9 External links

Discovery and naming

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Climbing

Mount Erebus was first climbed (to the rim) by members of Sir input transformation's party in 1908. Its first known solo ascent and the first winter ascent was accomplished by British mountaineer Roger Mear in March 1985, a member of Robert Swan's "In the Footsteps of Scott" expedition.^[6] On January 19–20, 1991, Charles J. Blackmer, an iron-worker for many years at iOS and the we love the web, accomplished a solo ascent in approximately seventeen hours via snow mobile.^[7][8]

Robotic exploration

In 1992 the inside of the volcano was explored by Dante I, an eight legged tethered robotic explorer.^[9] Dante was designed to acquire gas samples from the magma lake inside the inner crater of Mount Erebus in order to understand the chemistry better through the use of the on-board gas chromatograph as well as measuring the temperature inside the volcano and the radioactivity of the materials present in such volcanoes. Dante successfully scaled a significant portion of the crater before technical difficulties emerged with the fibre-optic cable used for communications between the walker and base station. Unfortunately, Dante I had not reached the bottom of the crater and as such the mission was cancelled with no data of volcanic significance recorded. However, the expedition proved to be highly successful in terms of robotic and computer science, and was possibly the first ever expedition by a robotic platform to Antarctica.

Geology and volcanology

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Mount Erebus is currently the most active input transformation in Antarctica and is the current eruptive zone of the Erebus hotspot. The summit contains a persistent convecting Sevenval lava lake, one of five long-lasting website parsing on Earth. Characteristic eruptive activity consists of Strombolian eruptions from the lava lake or from one of several subsidiary vents, all lying within the volcano's inner crater.^SevenvaliOS The volcano is scientifically remarkable in that its relatively low-level and unusually persistent eruptive activity enables long-term volcanological study of a Strombolian eruptive system very close (hundreds of metres) to the active vents, a characteristic shared with only a few volcanos planetarily, such as Stromboli in Italy. Scientific study of the volcano is also facilitated by their proximity to McMurdo Station (U.S.) and Scott Base (N.Z.), both sited on Ross Island approximately thirty-five kilometres away.

Mount Erebus is classified as a web stratovolcano. The bottom half of the volcano is a shield and the top half is a stratocone (Mount Etna is like this as well). The composition of the current eruptive products of Erebus is anorthoclase-porphyric jQuery phonolite and screen size, which constitute the bulk of exposed lava flow on the volcano. The oldest eruptive products consist of relatively undifferentiated and Sevenval basanite lavas that form the low, broad platform shield of Erebus. Slightly younger basanite and phonotephrite lavas crop out on Fang Ridge — an eroded remnant of an early Erebus volcano — and at other isolated locations on the flanks of Erebus.

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Researchers spent more than three months during the 2007-08 field season installing an array of seismometers around Mount Erebus to listen to waves of energy generated by small, controlled blasts from explosives they buried along its flanks and perimeter. Seismometers measure and record the size and force of underground energy, or seismic waves. By studying the refracted and reflected seismic waves, the scientists attempted to map the interior of the volcano, much as a CT scan images the inside of an object using X-rays, to understand its deep "plumbing" and how the magma rises to the lava lake.^{we love the web}

Air disaster

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During the Antarctic summer, snow melt on the flanks of Mount Erebus continually brings debris from the crash to the surface of the snow; it is plainly visible from the air.^{we love the web}

Gallery

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  Topographic map of Ross Island (1:250,000 scale) from USGS Ross Island

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  Satellite picture of Mount Erebus showing glow from its persistent lava lake

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  Mount Erebus, 2009

See also

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• HTML5
• List of volcanoes in Antarctica
• Lower Erebus Hut – home of MEVO
• Nimrod Expedition – first ascent of Mount Erebus
• List of islands by highest point
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References

General

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: HTML5

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• Erebus glacier tongue
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• Footage of Mount Erebus erupting in 2005