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76 relations: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Alkali basalt, Amundsen Sea, Antarctic ice sheet, Antarctica, Automatic weather station, Basalt, Basement (geology), Breccia, Byrd Station, Cenozoic, Climate change, Common Era, Crust (geology), Desert climate, Dike (geology), Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Ellsworth Land, Glacial erratic, Glacial striation, Google Books, Granite, Hawaiite, Helium, Holocene, Hudson Mountains, Ice core, Jones Mountains, King Peninsula, Last Glacial Maximum, Lava, Lichen, Mantle (geology), Mantle plume, Marie Byrd Land, Miocene, Moss, Mountain range, Nunatak, Olivine, Operation Highjump, Palagonite, Parasitic cone, Petrel, Phreatomagmatic eruption, Pillow lava, Pine Island Glacier, Pliocene, Radar, Scoria, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- Landforms of Ellsworth Land
- Miocene stratovolcanoes
- Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica
- Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung) is located in Bremerhaven, Germany, and a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
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Alkali basalt
Alkali basalt or alkali olivine basalt is a dark-colored, porphyritic volcanic rock usually found in oceanic and continental areas associated with volcanic activity, such as oceanic islands, continental rifts and volcanic fields.
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Amundsen Sea
The Amundsen Sea is an arm of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica.
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Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of and an average thickness of over.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
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Automatic weather station
An automatic weather station (AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from remote areas.
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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.
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Basement (geology)
In geology, basement and crystalline basement are crystalline rocks lying above the mantle and beneath all other rocks and sediments.
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Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
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Byrd Station
The Byrd Station is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by U.S. Navy Seabees during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica.
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Cenozoic
The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
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Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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Desert climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.
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Dike (geology)
In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.
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Electrical resistivity and conductivity
Electrical resistivity (also called volume resistivity or specific electrical resistance) is a fundamental specific property of a material that measures its electrical resistance or how strongly it resists electric current.
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Ellsworth Land
Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf.
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Glacial erratic
A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests.
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Glacial striation
Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
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Hawaiite
Hawaiite is an olivine basalt with a composition between alkali basalt and mugearite.
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Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Hudson Mountains
The Hudson Mountains are a mountain range in western Ellsworth Land just east of Pine Island Bay at the Walgreen Coast of the Amundsen Sea. Hudson Mountains and Hudson Mountains are active volcanoes, Landforms of Ellsworth Land, Miocene stratovolcanoes, Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica and Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land.
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Ice core
An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.
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Jones Mountains
The Jones Mountains are an isolated group of mountains, trending generally east–west for, situated on the Eights Coast, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, about south of Dustin Island. Hudson Mountains and Jones Mountains are Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land.
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King Peninsula
King Peninsula is an ice-covered peninsula, long and wide, lying south of Thurston Island and forming the south side of Peacock Sound, Antarctica.
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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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Lava
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.
Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
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Mantle (geology)
A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
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Mantle plume
A mantle plume is a proposed mechanism of convection within the Earth's mantle, hypothesized to explain anomalous volcanism.
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Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Moss
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu stricto.
Mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground.
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Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.
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Olivine
The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula.
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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.
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Palagonite
Palagonite is an alteration product from the interaction of water with volcanic glass of chemical composition similar to basalt.
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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.
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Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
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Phreatomagmatic eruption
Phreatomagmatic eruptions are volcanic eruptions resulting from interaction between magma and water.
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Pillow lava
Pillow lavas are lavas that contain characteristic pillow-shaped structures that are attributed to the extrusion of the lava underwater, or subaqueous extrusion.
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Pine Island Glacier
Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is a large ice stream, and the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for about 25% of Antarctica's ice loss.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
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Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
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Scoria
Scoria is a pyroclastic, highly vesicular, dark-colored volcanic rock formed by ejection from a volcano as a molten blob and cooled in the air to form discrete grains called clasts.
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Seismic tomography
Seismic tomography or seismotomography is a technique for imaging the subsurface of the Earth with seismic waves produced by earthquakes or explosions.
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Siple Dome
Siple Dome is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica.
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Slab window
In geology, a slab window is a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate when a mid-ocean ridge meets with a subduction zone and plate divergence at the ridge and convergence at the subduction zone continue, causing the ridge to be subducted.
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Stable isotope ratio
The term stable isotope has a meaning similar to stable nuclide, but is preferably used when speaking of nuclides of a specific element.
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Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
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Subglacial volcano
A subglacial volcano, also known as a glaciovolcano, is a volcanic form produced by subglacial eruptions or eruptions beneath the surface of a glacier or ice sheet which is then melted into a lake by the rising lava.
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Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
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Tephrite
Tephrite is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
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Thurston Island
Thurston Island is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica.
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Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
Tuya
A tuya is a flat-topped, steep-sided volcano formed when lava erupts through a thick glacier or ice sheet.
Ultramafic rock
Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).
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United States Antarctic Service Expedition
The United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), often referred to as Byrd's Third Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition jointly sponsored by the United States Navy, State Department, Department of the Interior and The Treasury.
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Usnea
Usnea is a genus of mostly pale grayish-green fruticose lichens that grow like leafless mini-shrubs or tassels anchored on bark or twigs.
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Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of rock, mineral crystals, and volcanic glass, produced during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
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Volcanic crater
A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.
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Volcanic explosivity index
The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) is a relative measure of the explosiveness of volcanic eruptions.
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Volcanic field
A volcanic field or crater row is an area of Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity.
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Volcanic glass
Volcanic glass is the amorphous (uncrystallized) product of rapidly cooling magma.
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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.
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Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
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Webber Nunatak
Webber Nunatak is a nunatak (495 m) standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) west of Mount Manthe in the Hudson Mountains. Hudson Mountains and Webber Nunatak are Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land.
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the Western Hemisphere.
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West Antarctica
West Antarctica, or Lesser Antarctica, one of the two major regions of Antarctica, is the part of that continent that lies within the Western Hemisphere, and includes the Antarctic Peninsula.
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See also
Landforms of Ellsworth Land
- Andersen Escarpment
- Bell Valley
- Bryan Coast
- Connell Canyon
- Eights Coast
- Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands
- Founders Escarpment
- Havola Escarpment
- Hudson Mountains
- Jacobsen Valley
- Johnson Neck
- Larson Valley
- Sikera Valley
- Thompson Escarpment
- White Escarpment
Miocene stratovolcanoes
- Antofalla
- Aucanquilcha
- Cerro Beltrán
- Cerro Napa
- Chusmiza
- Copiapó (volcano)
- Coquihalla Mountain
- Doña Ines
- El Laco
- Farallon Negro (volcano)
- Hudson Mountains
- Koh-i-Sultan
- La Yeguada
- Lauca (volcano)
- Level Mountain
- Level Mountain Range
- Los Patos
- Monte Pissis
- Mount Erciyes
- Mount Overlord
- Mount Vernon Harcourt
- Mount Ōkueyama
- Mounts of Cantal
- Ojos de Maricunga
- Rincon volcanic complex
- Sabalan
- Sahand
- Tatajachura
- Tchabal Nganha
- TulTul, Del Medio and Pocitos
- Tutupaca
- Waitākere volcano
Stratovolcanoes of Antarctica
- Beaufort Island
- Big Ben (Heard Island)
- Bridgeman Island (South Shetland Islands)
- Brown Peak (Sturge Island)
- Buckle Island
- Hudson Mountains
- Melville Peak
- Mount Discovery
- Mount Dixon (Heard Island)
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Melbourne
- Mount Overlord
- Mount Vernon Harcourt
- Penguin Island (South Shetland Islands)
- Young Island
Volcanoes of Ellsworth Land
- Hudson Mountains
- Jones Mountains
- Webber Nunatak
References
Also known as Dean Nunataks, Evans Knoll, Hodgson Nunatak, Inman Nunatak, Kenfield Nunatak, Koehler Nunatak, Maish Nunatak, Meyers Nunatak, Mount Manthe, Mount Moses, Mount Nickens, Pryor Cliff, Rebholz Nunatak, Shepherd Dome, Siren Rock, Slusher Nunatak, Teeters Nunatak, Tighe Rock, Velie Nunatak, Wold Nunatak.