The Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province is a volcanic field in northern Marie Byrd Land of West Antarctica, consisting of over 18 large shield volcanoes, 30 small volcanic centres and possibly many more centres buried under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It overlies a wide and long dome that has formed as a result of fault blocking within the West Antarctic Rift System.

Volcanism in the Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province commenced at least 36 million years ago during the latest Eocene epoch. This activity has continued into the current Holocene epoch, with the largest volcanic eruption in the last 10,000 years having possibly taken place about 2,300 years ago.

Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province

Volcanoes

Ames Range

Mount Andrus

Mount Boennighausen

Mount Kauffman

Mount Kosciusko

Crary Mountains

Boyd Ridge

Mount Frakes

Mount Steere

Mount Rees

Executive Committee Range

Mount Cumming

Mount Hampton

Mount Hartigan

Mount Sidley

Mount Waesche

Flood Range

Mount Berlin

Mount Bursey

Starbuck Crater

Mount Moulton

McCuddin Mountains

Mount Petras

Mount Flint

Mount Murphy

Mount Siple

Mount Takahe

Toney Mountain

Downs Cone

Ellis Cone

References

Geologic provinces

Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land

Eocene volcanoes

Oligocene volcanoes

Miocene volcanoes

Pliocene volcanoes

Pleistocene volcanoes

Holocene volcanoes

Volcanic fields

Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province