A tephrostratigraphy of the active Antarctic volcano, Mt. Erebus, was determined from englacial tephra on the ice-covered flanks of Erebus and an adjacent volcano. The tephra are, used to reconstruct the eruptive history and magmatic evolution of Erebus. Scanning electron microscope images and Image Particle Analysis suggest the tephra formed in phreatomagmatic and magmatic eruptions and in som...

Wettergreen, D., Thorpe, C. and Whittaker, R., Exploring Mount Erebus by walking robot, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 11 (1993) 171-185. Dante is a tethered walking robot capable of climbing steep slopes. In 1992 it was created at Carnegie Mellon University and deployed in Antarctica to explore an active volcano, Mount Erebus. The Dante project's robot science objectives were to demonstrate ...

Introduction: We have obtained multiple contemporaneous ground and space-based visible and hyperspectral infrared observations of a persistent active lava lake, one of the rarest volcanonological phenomenon. This unique dataset advances our understanding of remote sensing of lava lake activity on Earth and Io. The Mt. Erebus lava lake: Active lava lakes are the top of an open magma system and p...

SO2 emission rates from Erebus volcano show periodicity, which directly relates to lava lake convection and magma and conduit processes. Mt. Erebus is a 3794 m stratovolcano with a persistently degassing convecting, phonolite lava lake. Lava lake SO2 emission rates were collected from 1992 to 2003 using the correlation spectrometer (COSPEC) and in 2003 and 2005 using a miniature ultra-violet di...

Abstract Erebus volcano, Antarctica, is the southernmost active volcano on globe. Despite its remoteness and harsh conditions, provides an unprecedented unique opportunity to study petrogenesis evolution, as well passive explosive degassing, of alkaline magmatic system with a persistently open magma-filled conduit. In this chapter, we review nearly five decades scientific research related inclu...

Abstract Glasses quenched from relatively undegassed ocean island magmas erupted volcanoes at Iceland, Hawaii, the Canary Islands, and Erebus have elevated Fe 3+ /∑Fe ratios compared to glasses mid-ocean ridge basalts. This has been ascribed f O 2 of their mantle sources, plausibly due subducted, oxidized near-surface-derived components in sources. The basaltic Reunion Island Indian Sr–Nd-Hf-Pb...

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We present the results of phase equilibrium experiments carried out on basanite and phonotephrite lavas from Ross Island, Antarctica. Experiments were designed to reproduce the P–T–X–fO2 conditions of deep and intermediate magma storage and to place constraints on the differentiation of each of the two predominant lava suites on the island, which are thought to be derived from a common parent m...

The Earth's crust hosts a subsurface, dark, and oligotrophic biosphere that is poorly understood in terms of the energy supporting its biomass production and impact on food webs at the Earth's surface. Dark oligotrophic volcanic ecosystems (DOVEs) are good environments for investigations of life in the absence of sunlight as they are poor in organics, rich in chemical reactants and well known f...