Evolution of an englacial volcano: Brown Bluff, Antarctica

• Published in: Bulletin of Volcanology
• Main Author: Skilling, I. P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1994
• Subjects: Brown Bluff; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517380/; https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00302837

Marine shallow-water to emergent volcanoes have been described in detail, but comparable englacial centres are not well documented. Brown Bluff is a Pleistocene, shallow water, alkali basaltic volcano whose deposits were ponded within an englacial lake, enclosed by ice >400 m thick. Its evolution...