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Mount Petras
Map of Mount Petras
Highest point
Coordinates75°51′S 128°38′W / 75.850°S 128.633°W / -75.850; -128.633[1]
Naming
EtymologyNamed for Theodore Argyres Petras
Geography
Mount Petras is located in Antarctica
Mount Petras
Mount Petras

Mount Petras is a mountain in Antarctica. It consists of volcanic rocks, most of Cretaceous age but there is also an Eocene-Oligocene volcanic system that may have been emplaced inside of thin ice. It is part of the Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province and is its oldest volcano.

  1. ^ Wilch & McIntosh 2000, p. 477.

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