Mount Berlin stands in the Flood Range of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, about 100 kilometers inland from the Hobbs Coast, and at 3,478 meters is the highest volcano in that range. It is a composite structure of two coalesced volcanic centers, Berlin proper with a 2-kilometer-wide summit crater and, 3.5 kilometers away, Merrem Peak with a smaller 2.5-by-1-kilometer crater, together spanning about 20 kilometers and holding a combined volume of roughly 200 cubic kilometers. The volcano is built mainly of trachyte lava flows and pyroclastic rock, with lesser amounts of comendite, pantellerite and phonolite. It began erupting during the Pliocene and remained active through the late Pleistocene and into the Holocene, with its most recent eruption dated to roughly 10,300 years ago; fumarolic ice towers on its surface show it remains geothermally active today. This entity documents Mount Berlin specifically as a geological formation, a composite Antarctic volcano of coalesced trachyte cones still fumarolically active.
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Source Mount Berlin (Wikipedia)
Source Mount Berlin (Wikipedia)
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Mount Berlin
Source Mount Berlin (Wikipedia)
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1. Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty: Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
Secretariat of the Antarctic TreatyArticle 2Quote, Article 2
It designates Antarctica as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science” (Art. 2).
View the Source 2. Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: Volcanoes of the World, Holocene volcanoes service
Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism ProgramVolcanoes of the World, volcano 390022Quote, Volcanoes of the World, volcano 390022
"Volcano_Name": "Berlin" ... "Last_Eruption_Year": -8350
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Wikidata Q645451, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Mount Berlin (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Trachyte, Lead paragraph
Trachyte is the dominant volcanic rock and occurs in the form of lava flows and pyroclastic rocks.
Associated With: Pliocene, Lead, age Pliocene
The volcano began erupting during the Pliocene and was active into the late Pleistocene and the Holocene.
Associated With: Pleistocene, Lead, age Pleistocene
The volcano began erupting during the Pliocene and was active into the late Pleistocene and the Holocene.
Associated With: Holocene, Lead, age Holocene
The volcano began erupting during the Pliocene and was active into the late Pleistocene and the Holocene.
Associated With: Trachyte, Lead, rock Trachyte
It is part of the Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province. Trachyte is the dominant volcanic rock and occurs in the form of lava flows and pyroclastic rocks.
Caused By: Volcanism, Lead, process Volcanism
The volcano began erupting during the Pliocene and was active into the late Pleistocene and the Holocene.
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