The next day, we hiked up the cinder cone that had been looming over the ship for the last three days. This is a really interesting volcano. It's one of the few places that have ultramafic xenoliths, which are chunks of rock brought up from the mantle as the volcano was erupting. It's also interesting because some of the xenoliths contain carbonates that are similar to those in the ALH84001 Mars meteorite that was the center of quite a stir a few years ago, because some thought it contains microfossils (it doesn't).
A fox(?) vertebra:
It was snowing pretty good at the higher elevations:
The view from the summit:
The glaciers make the mountains very rugged. These mountains are only 500 meters or so, but they look like 4000 meter mountains in the US.
The biologists among us collected samples from an ice cave near the summit
Across the fjord are the Devonian red beds from the day before:
The view from the summit:
The glaciers make the mountains very rugged. These mountains are only 500 meters or so, but they look like 4000 meter mountains in the US.
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