Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It is about 30 kilometres (20 mi) wide with parasitic vents and a caldera up to 8 kilometres (5 mi) wide. Most of the volcano was formed by trachytic lava flows. It reached its present height about 200,000 years ago. Snow, ice, and glaciers cover most of Mount Takahe. With a volume of 780 km3 (200 cu mi), it is a massive volcano; the parts of the edifice that are buried underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are probably even larger. It is part of the West Antarctic Rift System along with eighteen other known volcanoes. A major eruption took place around 17,700 years ago, possibly forming an ozone hole over Antarctica. The last eruption occurred about 7,600 years ago; there is no present-day activity. The name of the volcano refers to the takahē, a flightless bird from New Zealand.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1898:
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the first official land speed record, averaging 63.15 km/h (39.24 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in Achères, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record
1932:
Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_NFL_Playoff_Game
2017:
An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment
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primum mobile: 1. (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate. 2. (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”). 3. (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primum_mobile
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