EREBUS VOLCANO MAC OS
If you want to do some monitoring at home, there is even an Mac OS Dashboard app for MEVO with current information of the volcano. Erebus also lies close to McMurdo Station. Erebus even once has a robotic explorer attempt to descend into the crater, but it ran into some trouble. The volcano is also closely watched via satellite (see below), examining the temperature of the surface of the lava lake and the SO 2 flux. There website has one of the most remarkable archives of information on a single volcano on the internet. Erebus Volcano Observatory (MEVO), run by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and the National Science Foundation. Hazards: Lava flows, some minor explosions from Strombolian-style eruptions, tephra/ash fall.This is what is driving the extension in the Terror Rift graben. The source of the magma at Erebus is referred to as the " Erebus Plume" that is rising from asthenosphere (in the mantle) at velocities of ~6 cm/year.
This is an intracontinental rift zone that drives extension, producing the Terror Rift graben, which also hosts other nearby volcanoes on Ross Island (Mt. Geophysical location: Erebus lies in the West Antarctic Rift System over relatively thin (20 km) crust in what is (excellently) called the Terror Rift.Location: Antarctica* (technically, it is on the part of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand, but the Antarctic Treaty System more or less makes the continent an international zone.).Erebus in Antarctica with a local resident in the foreground. Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island in Antarctica and it definitely has some unique features. The next up in my Volcano Profiles Series, is one of the most remote volcanoes on the planet, yet also one of the more closely studied and monitored (albeit from afar).
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