The Pleiades

The Pleiades
Highest peak	Mount Atlas ( 3040 m )
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 42 ′ S , 165 ° 32 ′ E Coordinates: 72 ° 42 ′ S , 165 ° 32 ′ E
Type	Stratovolcanoes , extinguished
	Map of the Freyberg Mountains and Evans Firnfield from 1967, in the southeastern quarter of The Pleiades

The Pleiades ( English for The Pleiades ) are a group of extinct volcanoes of the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It extends from Mount Pleiones in the south over a length of about 13 km in a north-easterly direction. The most distinctive peaks are, in addition to Mount Pleiones ( 3020 m ), the nearby Mount Atlas , the highest elevation of the group at 3040 m , and the volcanic cones Alcyone Cone and Taygete Cone further north .

These are young volcanoes that were formed in the Middle and Upper Pleistocene and were probably still active in the Holocene . The youngest trachytes from the Taygete Cone were dated to an age of around 6000 (according to older studies of even only 3000) years, albeit with a high degree of uncertainty.

Scientists of the northern group of a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition carried out from 1962 to 1963 named it after the star cluster of the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus .

Web links

The Pleiades in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
The Pleiades on geographic.org (English).
The Pleiades in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
Freyberg Mountains. Antarctica 1: 250,000 Reconnaisance Series. Topographic map with the mountain range The Pleiades . United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1967/1988 (JPG, English).

Individual evidence

^ Richard P. Esser, Philip R. Kyle ⁴⁰ Ar / ³⁹ Ar chronology of the McMurdo Volcanic Group at The Pleiades, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In: Antarctica at the close of a millennium: proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Wellington 1999 (English, abstract ).
^ Philip R. Kyle: Volcanic geology of the Pleiades, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica . Ohio State University, Institute of Polar Studies, Columbus 1982 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).

[1] Richard P. Esser, Philip R. Kyle ⁴⁰ Ar / ³⁹ Ar chronology of the McMurdo Volcanic Group at The Pleiades, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In: Antarctica at the close of a millennium: proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Wellington 1999 (English, abstract ).

[2] Philip R. Kyle: Volcanic geology of the Pleiades, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica . Ohio State University, Institute of Polar Studies, Columbus 1982 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).