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Mount Berlin

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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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International Treaty Protected Area 1
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Orogeny, Processes

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

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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Mount Berlin
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1. Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty: Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
Secretariat of the Antarctic TreatyArticle 2
Quote, Article 2
It designates Antarctica as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science” (Art. 2).
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Wikidata: Mount Berlin
Wikidata Q645451, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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