Lithostratigraphy and volcanic evolution of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Smellie, J.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Deception Island; Port Foster; Baily Head; Pendulum Cove; Fumarole Bay; Stonethrow Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20289/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102001000281

Deception Island is the most active volcano in the Antarctic Peninsula region. It is a large basalt–andesite shield volcano with a 10 km-wide restless caldera (Port Foster) and a complicated history of pre- and post-caldera eruptions. There has been no modern volcanological investigation of the enti...