Toney Mountain
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| Toney Mountain | |
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 Aerial view of Toney Mountain from the east. |
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| Elevation | 3,595 metres (11,795 feet) |
| Location | Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Type | Shield volcano |
| Age of rock | Holocene? |
| Last eruption | Unknown |
Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land. A 3 km-wide summit caldera tops the volcano, and Holocene eruptions may have had occurred at Toney Mountain.
Toney Mountain was probably among those viewed from a distance by Admiral Byrd and others of the USAS in plane flights from the ship Bear in February 1940. It was mapped in December 1957 by the oversnow traverse party from Byrd Station to the Sentinel Range, 1957-58, led by C.R. Bentley who proposed the name. Named after George R. Toney, scientific leader at Byrd Station in 1957, a participant in several Antarctic and Arctic operations, serving in both field and administrative capacities.
[edit] Sources
- Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program: Toney Mountain
- 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.
- Amar Andalkar's Ski Mountaineering and Climbing Site. Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond (1997–2007). Retrieved on 2005-01-14.
This article incorporates text from Toney Mountain, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
