Melville

sopka – Stratovolcano, Antarctica, Antarctic-Scotia Volcanic Regions

Kde

Antarctica, Antarctic-Scotia Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

549 m

Tektonické prostředí

Intraplate / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poloha

-62,020°, -57,670°

Melville Peak is an eroded stratovolcano on NE King George Island with a summit crater. No radiocarbon dates are available, but an ash layer found 30 km away in a NE Bransfield Strait marine sediment core with compositional similarity to Melville Peak suggests possible Holocene activity within the past few thousand years.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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