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Mount Waesche, the Glossary

Mount Waesche is a mountain of volcanic origin at the southern end of the Executive Committee Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.^[1]

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Executive Committee Range
Shield volcanoes of Antarctica
Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land

Aenigmatite

Aenigmatite, also known as cossyrite after Cossyra, the ancient name of Pantelleria, is a sodium, iron, titanium inosilicate mineral.

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Aeolian processes

Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).

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Antarctica

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

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Argon–argon dating

Argon–argon (or 40Ar/39Ar) dating is a radiometric dating method invented to supersede potassiumndashargon (K/Ar) dating in accuracy.

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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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Benmoreite

Benmoreite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.

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Blue ice (glacial)

Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier.

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Blue-ice area

A blue-ice area is an ice-covered area of Antarctica where wind-driven snow transport and sublimation result in net mass loss from the ice surface in the absence of melting, forming a blue surface that contrasts with the more common white Antarctic surface.

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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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Cinder cone

A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.

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Comendite

Comendite is a hard, peralkaline igneous rock, a type of light blue grey rhyolite.

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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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Dike (geology)

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.

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Drift (geology)

In geology, drift is a name for all sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel, boulders) transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by glacial meltwater.

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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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Executive Committee Range

The Executive Committee Range is a range consisting of five major volcanoes, which trends north-south for along the 126th meridian west, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mount Waesche and Executive Committee Range are volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

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Feldspar

Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.

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Fissure vent

A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure, eruption fissure or simply a fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity.

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Frost weathering

Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice.

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Glacial striation

Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion.

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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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Granulite

Granulites are a class of high-grade metamorphic rocks of the granulite facies that have experienced high-temperature and moderate-pressure metamorphism.

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Hawaiite

Hawaiite is an olivine basalt with a composition between alkali basalt and mugearite.

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Holocene

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

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Hyaloclastite

Hyaloclastite is a volcanoclastic accumulation or breccia consisting of glass (from the Greek hyalus) fragments (clasts) formed by quench fragmentation of lava flow surfaces during submarine or subglacial extrusion.

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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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Ilmenite

Ilmenite is a titanium-iron oxide mineral with the idealized formula.

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K–Ar dating

Potassium–argon dating, abbreviated K–Ar dating, is a radiometric dating method used in geochronology and archaeology.

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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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List of volcanoes in Antarctica

This is a list of volcanoes in Antarctica.

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Magma

Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

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Mantle plume

A mantle plume is a proposed mechanism of convection within the Earth's mantle, hypothesized to explain anomalous volcanism.

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Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica.

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Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province

The Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province is a volcanic field in northern Marie Byrd Land of West Antarctica, consisting of over 18 large shield volcanoes, 30 small volcanic centres and possibly many more centres buried under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Mount Waesche and Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province are volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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Mount Berlin

Mount Berlin is a glacier-covered volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, from the Amundsen Sea. Mount Waesche and Mount Berlin are Polygenetic shield volcanoes, shield volcanoes of Antarctica and volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

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Mount Hampton

Mount Hampton is a shield volcano with a circular ice-filled caldera. Mount Waesche and Mount Hampton are Executive Committee Range, Polygenetic shield volcanoes and volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

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Mount Sidley

Mount Sidley is the highest dormant volcano in Antarctica, a member of the Volcanic Seven Summits, the highest volcanoes on each of the seven continents, with a summit elevation of. Mount Waesche and Mount Sidley are Executive Committee Range, Polygenetic shield volcanoes, shield volcanoes of Antarctica and volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

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Mount Takahe

Mount Takahe is a snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, from the Amundsen Sea. Mount Waesche and Mount Takahe are Polygenetic shield volcanoes, shield volcanoes of Antarctica and volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land.

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Mugearite

Mugearite is a type of oligoclase-bearing basalt, comprising olivine, apatite, and opaque oxides.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Olivine

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

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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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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Phenocryst

Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif, has large white phenocrysts of plagioclase (that have trapezoid shapes when cut through). 1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.

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Plagioclase

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

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Plio-Pleistocene

The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5 Mya to about 12 kya.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Pumice

Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.

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Pyroxenite

Pyroxenite is an ultramafic igneous rock consisting essentially of minerals of the pyroxene group, such as augite, diopside, hypersthene, bronzite or enstatite.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Radar

Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.

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Rhyolite

Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.

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Roche moutonnée

In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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Russell R. Waesche

Russell Randolph Waesche, Sr. (6 January 1886 – 17 October 1946) served as the eighth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1936 to 1946, overseeing the service during World War II. He was the U.S. Coast Guard's longest serving commandant, having served ten years in that post. In addition, he was the first officer to hold the ranks of vice admiral and admiral within the Coast Guard.

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References

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

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See also

Executive Committee Range

Shield volcanoes of Antarctica

Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land

References