A gas-and-steam plume rises above the Mount Erebus summit crater in 1983. Fang Ridge is in the foreground of this view from the NE. The summit plateau across the center of the photo is the rim of a caldera containing the active summit cone.

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

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Galleries: Volcanic Gases | Stratovolcanoes

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

Erebus