Ice-ash relationships on Deception Island, South Shetland islands, Antarctica

• Main Author: Koutz, Fleetwood R.
• Other Authors: White, Sidney E.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The Ohio State University 1969
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/81721

Recent volcanic eruptions on Deception Island (1967 and 1969) raise the possibility of eruptions in the recent past (1842?). Interrelationships between dirty ice, debris cover, frozen ground and meltwater hydrology reinforce the theory of reoccurring volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula. Eruption pa...