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Mount Pavlof or Pavlof Volcano is a stratovolcano of the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula.It has been one of the most active volcanoes in the United States since 1980, with eruptions recorded in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986–1988, 1996–1997, 2007, 2013, twice in 2014, 2016, and again in 2021-2022.
Map showing volcanoes of Alaska Peninsula. Dutton is a highly glaciated volcano. Its summit is composed of a series of lava domes which form a complex stratovolcano.The mountain's recent history is marked by at least avalanche which removed andesitic lava flows and several lava domes from the flank of its body and swiftly cascaded westward and southward towards Belkofski Bay.
Mount Edgecumbe (Tlingit: Lʼúx, Russian: Эджком) is located at the southern end of Kruzof Island, Alaska, about 15 miles (24 km) west of Sitka.The dormant volcano is about 9.9 miles (16 km) east of the Queen Charlotte Fault that separates the North American and Pacific Plates, and is the highest point in the Mount Edgecumbe volcanic field, an area of about 100 square miles (260 km 2 ...
Southwest Alaska had a population of 53,349 as of the 2000 census, less than one-tenth of Alaska's inhabitants. The population is in large part Alaska Native, with 58.1% identifying as entirely or partly "Native American" in the 2000 census. About 121 towns and villages, generally far apart and with populations in the hundreds, exist in the region.
Map showing volcanoes of Alaska Peninsula. Katmai caldera before and after surveys of 1908 and 1951. Mount Katmai is one of five vents encircling the Novarupta volcano, source of the VEI 6 eruption and associated voluminous pyroclastic flows in 1912. Katmai consists chiefly of lava flows, pyroclastic rocks, and non-welded to agglutinated air fall.
The Aleutian Trench, formed by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the North American plate, sits south of the island arc. [2] A forearc basin reaching depths of 7 km occupies the space between the trench and the island arc and leads up to the Aleutian Ridge, the north side of which being the area where the most volcanic activity occurs. [2]
It is the sixth highest mountain in the United States and the third highest volcano behind Mount Bona and Mount Blackburn. The south face of the volcano, at the head of the Sanford Glacier , rises 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in 1 mile (1,600 m) resulting in one of the steepest gradients in North America .
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Volcanoes of Alaska" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of ...