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  Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus (77°32'S, 169°10' E) in Antarctica is the southernmost active volcano.
Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross.
The ships and the volcano were all named for Erebus, a primordial Greek god, the son of Chaos.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mount_Erebus.html   (131 words)

  
 Mount Erebus at AllExperts
Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost active volcano on Earth.
Mount Erebus was discovered in 1841 by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross (whose ships were named Erebus and Terror; these ships were also used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition), and first climbed (to the rim) by members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's party in 1908.
The composition of the current eruptive activity on Mt. Erebus is anorthoclase-porphyric tephritic phonolite and phonolite, which constitute the bulk of exposed lava flow on the volcano.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mo/mount_erebus.htm   (657 words)

  
 Mt. Erebus, Volcano in Antarctica - Antarctic Connection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The craters of Mount Erebus were first visited in March 1908 by members of Shackleton's expedition, who initially noted the "vast abyss" filled with great masses of steam that rose in a column 150 to 300 meters high.
Other studies of Mount Erebus have included core drilling into the rocky flanks of the volcano to determine the types and sequence of materials erupted and monitoring of seismic wave activity.
At 3794 meters, Mount Erebus is the highest point on Ross Island and the largest, most active volcano on the Antarctic continent.
www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/science/mterebus.shtml   (817 words)

  
 Antarctica Erupts!
George Steinmetz was drawn to Mount Erebus, in Antarctica, by the ice.
On Mount Erebus, the churning magma is exposed at the top of the volcano, in a roiling 1,700-degree Fahrenheit lake perhaps miles deep.
Mount Erebus had started acting up in early 2005, and when scientists arrived it was erupting several times a day, each time ejecting 50 or so lava bombs.
www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2006/december/antarctica.php   (730 words)

  
 Mt. Erebus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
View of the inner crater of Mt. Erebus and the volcanic plume being emitted by the lava lake.
The volcano I adopted was volcano Mt. Erebus.
The age of Mount Erebus was estimated to be 1.3 million years ago and it is Stratovolcano.
geology.wcedu.pima.edu /~rsalcido/erebus.html   (154 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Scientists find Erebus a cooperative volcano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Erebus has a natural convection that continually brings new lava to the surface.
Erebus is perfectly situated to study trace gases in its plume because the air that streams past it is unpolluted.
More extreme sampling methods include titanium instruments that are lowered from the active crater rim to measure the temperature of the lava, and "dog chain" sampling, where a chain is dropped into the lava and quickly pulled out with crystallized magma attached.
www.usatoday.com /weather/resources/coldscience/sun/2001-01-25-erebus.htm   (1064 words)

  
 Antarctica Erupts!
George Steinmetz was drawn to Mount Erebus, in Antarctica, by the ice.
On Mount Erebus, the churning magma is exposed at the top of the volcano, in a roiling 1,700-degree Fahrenheit lake perhaps miles deep.
Mount Erebus had started acting up in early 2005, and when scientists arrived it was erupting several times a day, each time ejecting 50 or so lava bombs.
www.smithsonianmagazine.com /issues/2006/december/antarctica.php   (729 words)

  
 Erebus - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Erebus, in Greek religion and mythology, personification of darkness.
Mount Erebus, the highest mountain in Europe, is in the background.
Veteran Detroit rap duo Insane Clown Posse Violent J works the morgue at the Erebus haunted house in Pontiac, Michigan, on October 27, 2002.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-erebus.html   (191 words)

  
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Second, because Mt. Erebus is in such a cold climate and has a lot of snow and ice on it, it is possible that some old lava flows have actually run over snow and ice fields without melting them.
ANSWER from Lisa Gahagan on January 20, 1995 The biggest historical eruption of Mount Erebus was the one viewed by Captain James Clark Ross when he sailed into the region in the eighteenth century.
Erebus is the most studied volcano in Antarctica, having been the subject of research since it was discovered in 1841 (Kyle, 1990 in the above reference).
quest.arc.nasa.gov /antarctica/QA/geology/Volcanoes   (1064 words)

  
 Erebus' Secrets
Mount Erebus is Antarctica's legendary peak, the Fuji of this cold continent.
On solid rock around Erebus' crown they have installed eight broadband seismometers, which perceive motions in the Earth as subtle as a few millionths of a meter.
To accomplish all this work, Kyle and his team are staged out of Lower Erebus Camp: a collection of tents and Ski-Doos huddled around a Jamesway and a squat wooden hut, 11,000 feet up the north face of the peak.
antarcticsun.usap.gov /oldissues99-2000/99_1219/erebus.html   (1125 words)

  
 Mount Erebus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erebus was a primordial Greek god, the son of Chaos.
Erebus (3794 meters above sea level) is classified as a polygenetic stratovolcano.
The upper slopes of Mt. Erebus are dominated by steeply dipping (~30°) tephritic phonolite lava flows with large scale flow levees.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Erebus   (638 words)

  
 Global Volcanism Program | Erebus | Summary
Mount Erebus, the world's southernmost historically active volcano, overlooks the McMurdo research station on Ross Island.
The 3794-m-high Erebus is the largest of three major volcanoes forming the crudely triangular Ross Island.
The summit of the dominantly phonolitic Mount Erebus has been modified by one or two generations of caldera formation.
www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1900-02=   (195 words)

  
 Mount Erebus General Information
Erebus (77°32'S, 167°10'E), Ross Island, Antarctica is the world’s southern-most active volcano.
Scientific research, sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) since began the early 1970’s had included basic study of the petrology and geophysics of the volcano, the eruptive history, activity and degassing behavior of the lava lake, and the overall impact of the volcano on the Antarctica and global environment.
Research on Mt. Erebus has been primarily conducted by scientists in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and the Bureau of Geology and Mineral resources at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
www.ees.nmt.edu /Geop/mevo/erebus_info.html   (309 words)

  
 CVO Menu - Antarctica Volcanoes and Volcanics
Mount Erebus is an intraplate volcano, situated at the southern end of the Terror Rift within the Victoria Land basin, a major sedimentary basin with over 12 kilometers of fill and underlain by 21-kilometer-thick crust.
An older cone of Mount Erebus (Fang Volcano), composed largely of benmoreite, was partly destroyed by an unknown event, leaving a caldera of about 6-kilometers diameter.
Mount Melbourne is a large undissected stratovolcano along the western coast of the Ross Sea in Antartica's northern Victoria Land.
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Volcanoes/Antarctica/description_antarctica_volcanoes.html   (1436 words)

  
 Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus is only the second highest volcano in Antarctica, but it has been by far the most famous one since its discovery in 1841 during the voyage of Captain James Clark Ross.
Erebus is an enormous edifice, one of three volcanoes which form Ross Island, and it rises over 15000 ft (4500 m) above its footings on the floor of the Ross Sea, with an estimated volume of 450 cubic miles (1800 cu km).
Erebus is also unique in its composition, being the only volcano of its size to be constructed almost entirely of phonolite, a highly alkaline lava characteristic of intraplate volcanism possibly over a hotspot.
www.skimountaineer.com /ROF/ROF.php?name=Erebus   (315 words)

  
 Mount Erebus, Antarctica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Mount Erebus (elevation: 12,444 feet, 3,794 m) is on Ross Island in the Ross Sea.
Erebus is an active volcano with a convecting lava lake within a summit crater.
Most eruptions are small and Strombolian in character, tossing bombs onto the crater rim.
volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/current_volcs/erebus/erebus.html   (165 words)

  
 Origins: Antarctica: Field Notes: Five Senses on Erebus
During a two-day blizzard on Mount Erebus, with temperatures near -35 C (-30 F) and winds over 45 mph (57 kph), creating a wind chill of -90 F, we had plenty of time to meet the scientists on Erebus.
They were using instruments to extend all of their senses to explore the geology of Erebus, to try to understand the "life" of this volcano.
On Erebus, Professor Phil Kyle of New Mexico Tech is the principal investigator.
www.exploratorium.edu /origins/antarctica/fieldnotes/12_31senses.html   (732 words)

  
 Aircraft Accident: DC. 10 ZK-NZP Flight 901 - New Zealand Disasters - Kids - Christchurch City Libraries
This report placed the blame for the accident on the airline systems that had allowed the aircraft to be programmed to fly on the path which led directly to Mount Erebus.
The Mount Erebus disaster was New Zealand's biggest single tragedy, with one more death than in the 1931 Napier Earthquake.
Erebus, 1979 - Police Response to Disaster from NZ History.Net of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, 2002
library.christchurch.org.nz /Childrens/NZDisasters/Erebus.asp   (1088 words)

  
 Indieish : Your Free Music Daily » Day 282, Simon Slator - Mount Erebus
Today I’m featuring Mount Erebus from the album Antarctica released by Simon Slator in 2003 and re-released under a Creative Commons license on Jamendo in March of 2006.
I have listened to Mount Erebus more times than I care to admit, and Antarctica is a wonderful ambient soundscape.
Erebus is an active volcano in Antarctica, in fact the southernmost and most active.
indieish.com /2006/10/09/day-282-simon-slator-mount-erebus   (289 words)

  
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EREBUS Ross Island, Antarctica 77.53°S, 167.17°E; summit elev.
The summit of Mount Erebus has been modified by several generations of caldera formation.
According to the Mt. Erebus activity log, several "small- to medium-sized" eruptions occurred during 12-18 October, with a "very large" eruption occurring on 14 October.
www.volcano.si.edu /reports/usgs/archive.cfm?volcano=erebus   (247 words)

  
 Origins: Antarctica: Field Notes: Mt. Erebus
Noel and I were scheduled to visit Professor Phil Kyle and his team of geologists who live near the summit of Erebus and to join them on a data collecting expedition to the rim of the active crater.
So now, anyone going to the Lower Erebus Hut for more than eight hours is required to stop part way up the mountain at Fang Camp for 48 hours to allow their bodies to adapt to altitude.
The reason its called Lower Erebus Hut is that there used to be an upper hut, but in 1984, the mountain spit out volcanic bombs the size of Volkswagens that threatened to crush the upper hut so it was abandoned for the safer and more distant lower hut.
www.exploratorium.edu /origins/antarctica/fieldnotes/volcanoinice.html   (544 words)

  
 Antarctic volcano not melting ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
View across the Ross Sea of Mt. Erebus taken from a helicopter flying from the Dry Valleys to McMurdo on Jan. 25, 1999.
The 12,444-foot high Mount Erebus volcano dominates the western end of Ross Island in Antarctica, where the U.S. McMurdo Station is located.
Erebus was erupting when members of Capt. James Ross' 1841 expedition became the first humans to see it.
www.usatoday.com /weather/resources/coldscience/avolcano.htm   (384 words)

  
 Images of Antarctica
Erebus science group spends most of its time during the field season....this season more so than usual due to the severe weather which kept them camp-bound for a large part of their time.
On a clearer day, Mt. Erebus would have also be seen looming overhead, whereas there are only a couple spots on station where you can (barely) see the top of the mountain.
Icebergs are seen frozen in the Ross Sea, Mt. Erebus is visible, the Wilson Piedmont Glacier is visible, and so is the unique and cool soil that surrounds this area.
www.sethwhite.org /panoramas.htm   (1856 words)

  
 erebus research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Mt Erebus is the focus of a number of scientific studies.
The intake hose for the analyzer is mounted to the nose antenna of the helicopter to avoid any turbulence caused by the roters.
Flank degassing at Mt Erebus can be readily identified due to the manifestation of ice towers and areas of warm ground that are void of ice cover.
infohost.nmt.edu /~wardell/erebusgas.htm   (681 words)

  
 Mount Erebus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Erebus is southwest of Outpost Peak and northwest of Eremite Mountain.
Outpost Peak, Eremite Mountain and Erebus are on a continuous ridgeline and ring the Eremite Glacier on three sides.
The name Erebus was the name of one of the two ships on the ill fated Franklin expedition of 1854.
bivouac.com /MtnPg.asp?MtnId=500   (281 words)

  
 Mount Erebus disaster haunts, 25 years on - World - www.theage.com.au
But 25 years ago tomorrow, it turned into a flight that ended 257 lives when the airliner slammed into the side of an active volcano, Mount Erebus.
Mourners will gather on the slopes of Erebus tomorrow for a commemoration ceremony held at the foot of a cross that marks the site of the tragedy.
Among those attending will be Sir Edmund Hillary, who had been due to act as a commentator on the ill-fated flight, but was forced to pull out because of work commitments in the United States.
www.theage.com.au /news/World/Mount-Erebus-disaster-haunts-25-years-on/2004/11/26/1101219743403.html?from=storylhs   (574 words)

  
 Erebus, Mount - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Erebus, Mount volcanic peak, 12,280 ft (3,743 m) high, on Ross Island, in the Ross Sea, E Antarctica.
One of the loftiest volcanoes of the world, it was discovered in 1841 by the British explorer James C. Ross and named for one of his two ships.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Erebus, Mount" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-erebus-m.html   (214 words)

  
 Aktive vulkaner: Mt. Erebus
Mount Erebus, at 3.794 m asl, is situated on Ross Island (Ross-øya) in the Ross-sea,
Smaller explosions came from a smaller vent on the shore of the lake.
Mt. Erebus, discovered in 1841 by James Ross, it is one of only a very few volcanoes in the
www.vulkaner.no /v/volcan/erebus-e.html   (386 words)

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