Deciphering the evolution of Deception Island’s magmatic system

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Geyer, A., Álvarez-Valero, A. M., Gisbert, G., Aulinas, M., Hernández-Barreña, D., Lobo, A., Marti, J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Deception Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6344569/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30674998; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36188-4

Deception Island (South Shetland Islands) is one of the most active volcanoes in Antarctica, with more than 20 explosive eruptive events registered over the past two centuries. Recent eruptions (1967, 1969, and 1970) and the volcanic unrest episodes that happened in 1992, 1999, and 2014–2015 demonst...