Gaussberg
Sign in to saveGaussberg (or Schwarzen Berg, Mount Gauss) is a extinct volcanic cone in East Antarctica fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of Posadowsky Glacier. It is ice-free and conical in nature, having formed subglacially about 55,000 years ago. The current edifice is thought to be the remains of a once-larger mountain that has been reduced by glacial and subaerial erosion. The volcano has produced lamproite magmas, and is the youngest volcano to have produced such magmas on Earth.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Gaussberg
- Mountain.photo
- Warnsignal klima-polarregionen-kapitel-1 3.png
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Gaussberg in 1912
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 373
- Mountain.listing
- List of volcanoes in Antarctica
- Mountain.location
- Antarctica
- Mountain.map
- Antarctica
- Mountain.type
- Volcanic cone
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- Q4219529
- Named after
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Elevation
- 371
- Image
- Gaussberg Drygalski 14157.jpg
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- Gaußberg
- native label
- Gaussberg
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Research history
- Geography and geomorphology
- Geology
- Composition
- Eruption history
- Biology
- See also
- References
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Gaussberg (or Schwarzen Berg, Mount Gauss) is a extinct volcanic cone in East Antarctica fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of Posadowsky Glacier. It is ice-free and conical in nature, having formed subglacially about 55,000 years ago. The current edifice is thought to be the remains of a once-larger mountain that has been reduced by glacial and subaerial erosion. The volcano has produced lamproite magmas, and is the youngest volcano to have produced such magmas on Earth.
== Research history ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaussberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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