Living in the Shadow of a Volcano

• Main Author: Gilles, Janina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Hut Point; Hut Point Peninsula; McMurdo Station; Ross Island; Scott Base
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14080

Mt Erebus is the only active volcano on Ross Island. Though it is currently passively degassing, englacial tephrostratigraphy proves that there have been large eruptions in the past, with enough energy to throw out 4m sized blocks and have ash travel ~200 km away from the source. The potential for a...