Seismic Detection of an Active Subglacial Magmatic Complex in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Lough, Amanda C., Wiens, Douglas A., Barcheck, C. Grace, Anandakrishnan, Sridhar, Aster, Richard C., Blankenship, Donald D., Huerta, Audrey D., Nyblade, Andrew, Young, Duncan A., Wilson, Terry J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@CWU 2013
• Subjects: cryospheric science; seismology; volcanology; Geology; Geophysics and Seismology; Antarctic; Byrd; Executive Committee Range; Marie Byrd Land; Mount Waesche; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/geological_sciences/19; https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1992

Numerous volcanoes exist in Marie Byrd Land, a highland region of West Antarctica. High heat flow through the crust in this region may influence the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Volcanic activity progressed from north to south in the Executive Committee mountain range between the Mioce...