Volcano Live
volcanolive.com
Morning Volcano | John Seach
McMurdo Volcanic Province
78.5 S, 163.53 E
summit elevation 2732 m
Shield volcano
Mt Morning is the world's southernmost active volcano.
It is located 100 km south-west of Mt. Erebus, in the south-west corner of McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea. The volcano in 1280 km from the south pole.
Mt. Morning lies on the boundary between the continental rift of the Transantarctic Mountains in Southern Victoria Land and oceanic crust of the Ross Sea.
Mt Morning is part of a 2,000 km long chain of extrusive, Cenozoic, alkaline volcanic centers known as the McMurdo Volcanic Group.
Eruptions of Morning Volcano.
Volcanism on Mt. Morning is divided into two phases:
Phase I was erupted between 18.7 ± 0.3 and 11.4 ± 0.2 Ma.
Phase II between 6.13 ± 0.20 and 0.15 ± 0.01 Ma.
Further reading
Martin, A.P., Cooper, A.F. and Dunlap, W.J., 2010. Geochronology of Mount Morning, Antarctica:
two-phase evolution of a long-lived trachyte-basanite-phonolite eruptive center.
Bulletin of Volcanology, 72, pp.357-371.
Mt Morning Volcano Eruptions
Most recent eruptions are at least 10,000 years ago.