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Volcano
A vent or opening in a planet's surface that lets out pressurized molten rocks or magma, and gases from the inner core. Volcanoes come in various shapes and structure, but the most common ones are mountain-like structures with a crater at the summit.
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mount discovery
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount Discovery is a conspicuous, isolated stratovolcano, lying at the head of McMurdo Sound and east of Koettlitz Glacier, overlooking the NW portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. It forms the center of a ...
mount erebus
Natural environment; Volcano
Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for their expedition ship Discovery.
mount frakes
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount Frakes is a prominent shield volcano marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The mountain was mapped by the USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air ...
gaussberg
Natural environment; Volcano
Gaussberg (or Mount Gauss) is an extinct volcanic cone, 370 metres high (1,213 feet), fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of the Posadowsky Glacier in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land in Antarctica. Discover ...
mount hampton
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount Hampton is a shield volcano with a circular ice-filled crater occupying much of the summit area. It is the northernmost of the extinct volcanoes which comprise the Executive Committee Range in ...
mount harcourt
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount Harcourt is a stratovolcano making up part of the Hallett Peninsula extending into the Ross Sea about 375 mi (604 km) south of Mount Erebus, along with three overlapping shield volcanoes. Two ...
hudson mountains
Natural environment; Volcano
The Hudson Mountains is a group of parasitic cones forming nunataks just above the Antarctic ice sheet in west Ellsworth Land. They lie just east of Cranton Bay and Pine Island Bay at the eastern ...
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