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Monte Burney, the Glossary

Monte Burney is a volcano in southern Chile, part of its Austral Volcanic Zone which consists of six volcanoes with activity during the Quaternary.^[1]

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Adakite

Adakites are volcanic rocks of intermediate to felsic composition that have geochemical characteristics of magma originally thought to have formed by partial melting of altered basalt that is subducted below volcanic arcs.

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Aguilera (volcano)

Aguilera is a stratovolcano in southern Chile. Monte Burney and Aguilera (volcano) are Andean Volcanic Belt, Holocene stratovolcanoes, mountains of Chile, mountains of Magallanes Region, Stratovolcanoes of Chile and volcanoes of Magallanes Region.

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Amphibole

Amphibole is a group of inosilicate minerals, forming prism or needlelike crystals, composed of double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and/or magnesium in their structures.

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Andean Volcanic Belt

The Andean Volcanic Belt is a major volcanic belt along the Andean cordillera in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Andesite

Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica.

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Antarctic Cold Reversal

The Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) was a climatic event of intense atmospheric and oceanic cooling across the southern hemisphere (>40°S) between 14,700 and 13,000 years before present (BP) that interrupted the most recent deglacial climate warming (c. 18,000-11,500 years BP).

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Antarctic Plate

The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and other surrounding oceans.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Batholith

A batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust.

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Before Present

Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.

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Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.

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Brunswick Peninsula

Brunswick Peninsula is a large peninsula in Magallanes y la Antártica Region, Patagonia, Chile, at.

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Calc-alkaline magma series

The calc-alkaline magma series is one of two main subdivisions of the subalkaline magma series, the other subalkaline magma series being the tholeiitic series.

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Chile Triple Junction

The Chile Triple Junction (or Chile Margin Triple Junction) is a geologic triple junction located on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean off Taitao and Tres Montes Peninsula on the southern coast of Chile.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Communes of Chile

A commune (comuna) is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile.

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Complex volcano

A complex volcano, also called a compound volcano or a volcanic complex, is a mixed landform consisting of related volcanic centers and their associated lava flows and pyroclastic rock.

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Core sample

A core sample is a cylindrical section of (usually) a naturally-occurring substance.

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Crust (geology)

In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Dacite

Dacite is a volcanic rock formed by rapid solidification of lava that is high in silica and low in alkali metal oxides.

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Dune

A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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East Falkland

East Falkland (Isla Soledad) is the largest island of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, having an area of or 54% of the total area of the Falklands.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eric Shipton

Eric Earle Shipton, CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977), was an English Himalayan mountaineer.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Explosive eruption

In volcanology, an explosive eruption is a volcanic eruption of the most violent type.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Fjord

In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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Fueguino

Fueguino is a volcanic field in Chile. Monte Burney and Fueguino are Andean Volcanic Belt and volcanoes of Magallanes Region.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Hudson Volcano

Hudson Volcano (Volcán Hudson, Cerro Hudson, label) is a volcano in the rugged mountains of southern Chile. Monte Burney and Hudson Volcano are active volcanoes, Holocene stratovolcanoes and Stratovolcanoes of Chile.

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Ice core

An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.

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James Burney

James Burney (13 June 1750 – 17 November 1821) was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Lautaro (volcano)

Lautaro is an active subglacial stratovolcano located in Chilean Patagonia, in the northern part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Monte Burney and Lautaro (volcano) are active volcanoes, Andean Volcanic Belt, mountains of Chile, Quaternary South America, Quaternary volcanoes and Stratovolcanoes of Chile.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Lava dome

In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.

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Little Ice Age

The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.

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Llaima

The Llaima Volcano is one of the largest and most active volcanoes in Chile. Monte Burney and Llaima are active volcanoes, Holocene stratovolcanoes, mountains of Chile and Stratovolcanoes of Chile.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Marine isotope stages

Marine isotope stages (MIS), marine oxygen-isotope stages, or oxygen isotope stages (OIS), are alternating warm and cool periods in the Earth's paleoclimate, deduced from oxygen isotope data derived from deep sea core samples.

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Monogenetic volcanic field

A monogenetic volcanic field is a type of volcanic field consisting of a group of small monogenetic volcanoes, each of which erupts only once, as opposed to polygenetic volcanoes, which erupt repeatedly over a period of time.

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Muñoz Gamero Peninsula

Muñoz Gamero Peninsula is a peninsula in Chile.

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Natales

Natales (Spanish for "births") is a commune of the Última Esperanza Province in the Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region of extreme southern Chile.

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National Geology and Mining Service

Santiago. The National Geology and Mining Service (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería; SERNAGEOMIN) is a Chilean government agency.

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Nothofagus

Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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Olivine

The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula.

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Orography

Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.

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Parasitic cone

A parasitic cone (also adventive cone or satellite cone) is the cone-shaped accumulation of volcanic material not part of the central vent of a volcano.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Phillip Parker King

Rear Admiral Phillip Parker King, FRS, RN (13 December 1791 – 26 February 1856) was an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts.

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Plagioclase

Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Plinian eruption

Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.

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Post-glacial rebound

Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression.

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Potrok Aike

Potrok Aike is a maar in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina.

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Prediction of volcanic activity

Prediction of volcanic activity, and volcanic eruption forecasting, is an interdisciplinary monitoring and research effort to predict the time and severity of a volcano's eruption.

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Puerto Natales

Puerto Natales is a city in Chilean Patagonia.

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Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas (historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antarctica Chilena.

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Pyroclastic flow

A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of but is capable of reaching speeds up to.

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Pyroxene

The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Reclus (volcano)

Reclus (named after Élisée Reclus; sometimes confused with Cerro Mano del Diablo southwest of Reclus), also written as Reclús, is a volcano located in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, Chile. Monte Burney and Reclus (volcano) are active volcanoes, Andean Volcanic Belt, mountains of Chile, Quaternary South America, Quaternary volcanoes and volcanoes of Magallanes Region.

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Rhyolite

Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.

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Robert FitzRoy

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist.

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Robert Oliver Cunningham

Robert Oliver Cunningham (27 March 1841 – 1918) was a Scottish naturalist.

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Rock glacier

Rock glaciers are distinctive geomorphological landforms, consisting either of angular rock debris frozen in interstitial ice, former "true" glaciers overlain by a layer of talus, or something in-between.

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Scotia Plate

The Scotia Plate is a minor tectonic plate on the edge of the South Atlantic and Southern oceans.

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Sector collapse

A sector collapse or lateral collapse is the structural failure and subsequent collapse of part of a volcano.

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Seismology

Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or other planetary bodies.

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Seno Skyring

Seno Skyring is a large inland sound lying north of Riesco Island and south of mainland South America in southern Chile.

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Siple Dome

Siple Dome is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica.

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South American Plate

The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Speleothem

A speleothem is a geological formation by mineral deposits that accumulate over time in natural caves.

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Stalagmite

A stalagmite is a type of rock formation that rises from the floor of a cave due to the accumulation of material deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings.

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Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Sulfate

The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.

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Tephra

Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.

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Tephrochronology

Tephra horizons in south-central Iceland. The thick and light coloured layer at the height of the volcanologist's hands is rhyolitic tephra from Hekla. Tephrochronology is a geochronological technique that uses discrete layers of tephra—volcanic ash from a single eruption—to create a chronological framework in which paleoenvironmental or archaeological records can be placed.

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Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.

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Tsunami

A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

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Upwelling

Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.

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Ushuaia

Ushuaia is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina.

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Viedma (volcano)

Viedma is a subglacial volcano whose existence is questionable. Monte Burney and Viedma (volcano) are active volcanoes, Andean Volcanic Belt, Quaternary South America, Quaternary volcanoes and volcanoes of Magallanes Region.

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Villarrica (volcano)

Villarrica (Volcán Villarrica, Ruka Pillañ) is one of Chile's most active volcanoes, rising above the lake and town of the same name, south of Santiago. Monte Burney and Villarrica (volcano) are active volcanoes, Holocene stratovolcanoes, mountains of Chile, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes and Stratovolcanoes of Chile.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Burney

, Marine isotope stages, Monogenetic volcanic field, Muñoz Gamero Peninsula, Natales, National Geology and Mining Service, Nothofagus, Obsidian, Olivine, Orography, Parasitic cone, Patagonia, Phillip Parker King, Plagioclase, Pleistocene, Plinian eruption, Post-glacial rebound, Potassium, Potrok Aike, Prediction of volcanic activity, Puerto Natales, Punta Arenas, Pyroclastic flow, Pyroxene, Quaternary, Radiocarbon dating, Reclus (volcano), Rhyolite, Robert FitzRoy, Robert Oliver Cunningham, Rock glacier, Scotia Plate, Sector collapse, Seismology, Seno Skyring, Siple Dome, South American Plate, Southern Hemisphere, Speleothem, Stalagmite, Strait of Magellan, Stratovolcano, Subduction, Sulfate, Tephra, Tephrochronology, Tierra del Fuego, Tsunami, Upwelling, Ushuaia, Viedma (volcano), Villarrica (volcano), Volcanic arc, Volcanic explosivity index, Volcanic field, Volcano, Westerlies, Xenolith.

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See also

Mountains of Magallanes Region

Quaternary South America

Quaternary volcanoes

Volcanoes of Magallanes Region

References