Incus Berengario da Carpi in his "Commentaria super anatomia Mundini" (1521). Andreas Vesalius, in his "De humani corporis fabrica", was the first to compare the second element of the ossicles to an anvil, thereby giving it the name "incus". The final part of the long limb was once described as a "fourth ossicle" by Pieter Paaw in 1615. Incus The incus or anvil is a bone in the middle ear. The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three ossicles in the middle ear. The "incus" receives vibrations from the malleus, to which it is connected laterally, and transmits these to the
Anvil Peak have formed after Mount Cerberus. According to the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution, its formation occurred during the late Pleistocene epoch. It has not erupted in recent times; it is thought that its last activity was probably thousands of years ago. Anvil Peak has experienced deep erosion, more so than the other cones on the islands, which is partially due to its height. Anvil Peak Anvil Peak is a cone volcano located in Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States. The volcano was originally named in 1951, on a map by the United States Geological Survey. Its name was taken