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Mount Siple
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Mount Siple
Mount Siple
is a
potentially active
Antarctic
shield volcano
, rising to and dominating the northwest part of
Siple Island
, which is separated from the
Bakutis Coast
,
Marie Byrd Land
, by the
Getz Ice Shelf
. Its youthful appearance strongly suggests that it last erupted in the
Holocene
. It is capped by a summit
caldera
, and
tuff cones
lie on the lower flanks. Its massive volume of is comparable to that of
Mount Erebus
.
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