The 1991 explosive Hudson volcanic eruption as a geochronological marker for the Northern Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Main Authors: HEITOR EVANGELISTA, ALEXANDRE CASTAGNA, ALEXANDRE CORREIA, MARIUSZ POTOCKI, FRANCISCO AQUINO, ALEXANDRE ALENCAR, PAUL MAYEWSKI, ANDREI KURBATOV, RICARDO JAÑA, JULIANA NOGUEIRA, MARCUS LICINIO, ELAINE ALVES, JEFFERSON C. SIMÕES
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2021
• Subjects: Aerosols; Antarctic Peninsula; Hudson volcano; Volcanism; Science; Q; Antarctic; Detroit; Hudson; King George Island; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202220210810; https://doaj.org/article/b0dcb2ed9857495faff40f80fde16768

Abstract It is estimated that the explosive Hudson volcano eruption in Southern Chile injected approximately 2.7 km3 of basalt and trachyandesite tephra into the troposphere between August 8-15, 1991. The Hudson signal has been detected in Antarctica at the eastern sector and in South Pole snow. In...