Protector Shoal
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Protector Shoal is a submarine volcano which rises to about 27 m (90 ft) below sea level to the northwest of Zavodovski Island in the South Sandwich Islands chain. The last eruption occurred during March 1962. Protector Shoal is the only volcano in the arc that has erupted rhyolite pumice.
[edit] References
- LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union, 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
- Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: Protector Shoal
- Volcano World: Protector Shoal
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