We are working to restore the Unionpedia app on the Google Play Store
OutgoingIncoming
🌟We've simplified our design for better navigation!
Instagram Facebook X LinkedIn
Your own Unionpedia with your logo and domain, from 9.99 USD/month
Create my Unionpedia

Mount Murphy

Index Mount Murphy

Mount Murphy is a massive, snow-covered mountain with steep, rocky slopes rising to in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. [1]

Open in Google Maps

Table of Contents

  1. 20 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, Basalt, Bear Peninsula, Crosson Ice Shelf, K–Ar dating, Marie Byrd Land, Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province, Miocene, Operation Highjump, Parasitic cone, Pleistocene, Robert Cushman Murphy, Shield volcano, Smith Glacier, Trachyte, Ultra-prominent peak, United States Geological Survey, Walgreen Coast.

  2. Miocene shield volcanoes
  3. Shield volcanoes of Antarctica
  4. Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

See Mount Murphy and Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Amundsen Sea

The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica.

See Mount Murphy and Amundsen Sea

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

See Mount Murphy and Antarctica

Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

See Mount Murphy and Basalt

Bear Peninsula

Bear Peninsula is a peninsula about long and wide which is ice-covered except for several isolated rock bluffs and outcrops along its margins, lying east of Martin Peninsula on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

See Mount Murphy and Bear Peninsula

Crosson Ice Shelf

The Crosson Ice Shelf is an ice shelf, about wide, located north and northeast of Mount Murphy along the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

See Mount Murphy and Crosson Ice Shelf

K–Ar dating

Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.

See Mount Murphy and K–Ar dating

Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.

See Mount Murphy and Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province

The Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province is a volcanic field in northern Marie Byrd Land of West Antarctica, consisting of over 18 large shield volcanoes, 30 small volcanic centres and possibly many more centres buried under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Mount Murphy and Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province are volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

See Mount Murphy and Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province

Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

See Mount Murphy and Miocene

Operation Highjump

Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.

See Mount Murphy and Operation Highjump

Parasitic cone

A parasitic cone (also adventive cone or satellite cone) is the cone-shaped accumulation of volcanic material not part of the central vent of a volcano.

See Mount Murphy and Parasitic cone

Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

See Mount Murphy and Pleistocene

Robert Cushman Murphy

The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History.

See Mount Murphy and Robert Cushman Murphy

Shield volcano

A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground.

See Mount Murphy and Shield volcano

Smith Glacier

Smith Glacier (is a low-gradient Antarctic glacier, over 160 km (100 mi) long, draining from Toney Mountain in an ENE direction to Amundsen Sea. A northern distributary, Kohler Glacier, drains to Dotson Ice Shelf but the main flow passes to the sea between Bear Peninsula and Mount Murphy, terminating at Crosson Ice Shelf.

See Mount Murphy and Smith Glacier

Trachyte

Trachyte is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar.

See Mount Murphy and Trachyte

Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.

See Mount Murphy and Ultra-prominent peak

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

See Mount Murphy and United States Geological Survey

Walgreen Coast

The Walgreen Coast is a portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Herlacher and Cape Waite, or between Eights Coast on the east and Bakutis Coast in the west.

See Mount Murphy and Walgreen Coast

See also

Miocene shield volcanoes

Shield volcanoes of Antarctica

Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Murphy

Also known as Benedict Peak, Boyd Head, Bucher Peak, Buettner Peak, Callender Peak, Eisberg Head, Grew Peak, Hawkins Peak, Haynes Glacier, Hedin Nunatak, Kay Peak, Roos Glacier, Sechrist Peak, Turtle Peak, Vane Glacier.