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Record SL-866875 · Wikidata Q283552

Gaussberg

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Elevation
371 m
1,217 ft
Prominence
Isolation
Coordinates
66.8000° S, 89.1833° E
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Description

Wikipedia

Gaussberg (or Schwarzen Berg, Mount Gauss) is a 370-metre-high (1,210-foot) extinct volcanic cone in East Antarctica fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of Posadowsky Glacier. It is ice-free and conical in nature, having formed subglacially about 55,000 years ago. The current edifice is thought to be the remains of a once-larger mountain that has been reduced by glacial and subaerial erosion. The volcano has produced lamproite magmas, and is the youngest volcano to have produced such magmas on Earth.

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