Mount Morning
| Mount Morning | ||
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| height | 2723 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Shield volcano , dormant or extinct | |
 Mount Morning topographic map (scale 1: 250,000) |
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Mount Morning is a dormant or extinct, dome-shaped and 2,723 m high shield volcano in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises west-southwest of Mount Discovery and east of the Koettlitz Glacier .
Today's mountain was formed in two phases of volcanic eruptions of 18.7–11.4 million years BP and 6.13–0.02 million years BP. Taking these data into account, as well as the high heat flow and the location in an active rift zone , Mount Morning is more of a dormant than an extinct volcano.
The mountain was discovered during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after the Morning , one of two rescue ships on the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Morning in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Morning on geographic.org (English)
- Morning in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
- Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Mount Morning. In: skimountaineer.com. Amar Andalkar (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adam P. Martin et al .: Geochronology of Mount Morning, Antarctica: two-phase evolution of a long-lived trachyte-basanite-phonolite eruptive center . In: Bulletin of Volcanology . tape 72 , no. 3 , April 2010, p. 357–371 , doi : 10.1007 / s00445-009-0319-1 (English).