Murphy

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Antarctica, Antarctic-Scotia Volcanic Regions

Kde

Antarctica, Antarctic-Scotia Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Shield

Nadmořská výška

2 703 m

Poloha

-75,370°, -110,670°

Mount Murphy is a glacially dissected basaltic-trachytic shield volcano that formed during the Miocene. A Potassium-Argon date on a cone of 900,000 years indicates that flank activity resumed much later during the Pleistocene (LeMasurier, 1972; LeMasurier et al., 1990).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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