Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-06168

A gas plume from the Erebus summit crater casts a shadow on its western flank. There is an active lava lake in this crater and a caldera forms the plateau to the left of the summit cone. The McMurdo Station research facility on Hut Peninsula is in the foreground. Photo by Bill Rose, 1983 (Michigan Technological University).

A gas plume from the Erebus summit crater casts a shadow on its western flank. There is an active lava lake in this crater and a caldera forms the plateau to the left of the summit cone. The McMurdo Station research facility on Hut Peninsula is in the foreground.

Photo by Bill Rose, 1983 (Michigan Technological University).

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Keywords: stratovolcano | gas | plume | degassing | wind dispersal

Erebus