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Melville Volcano — Antarctica

StratovolcanoType
HoloceneLast eruption
549 mElevation
AntarcticaCountry
Melville
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Melville Peak is an eroded stratovolcano on NE King George Island with a summit crater. No radiocarbon dates are available, but an ash layer found 30 km away in a NE Bransfield Strait marine sediment core with compositional similarity to Melville Peak suggests possible Holocene activity within the past few thousand years.

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