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This data lists the historically active volcanoes of Alaska and the year of the last major eruptive event. The volcanoes listed meet at least one of the following criteria since 1700 CE: (1) documented, unquestioned eruption, or (2) a strongly suspected eruption, often an eruption documented in the historical account with very little information (current geologic knowledge must not contradict the eruption account), or (3) persistent (usually on the order of decades, but certainly longer than several months) fumaroles, with temperatures (where measured) within ~10 degrees C of the boiling point, or (4) significant, measured, volcanic-related, non-eruptive deformation, (5) documented earthquake swarm with strongly...
Tags: Active Volcanoes,
Alaska Peninsula,
Alaska Statewide Maps,
Alaska, State of,
Aleutian Arc, All tags...
Aleutian Islands,
Coastal and River,
Coastal and River Hazards,
Geologic Hazards,
Geology,
Hazards,
Historic Eruption,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcano Hazards,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Kasatochi is a small, isolated island volcano in the center of the Aleutian Island chain. It consists of a roughly circular cone approximately 3 km in diameter with a lake-filled central crater that is 1.2 km in diameter and extends from the highest point on the island to sea level. The oldest unit recognized is a thick series of mid-Pleistocene glaciovolcanic deposits consisting of autobrecciated lava, lahars, and volumetrically minor lava masses that we believe to have been emplaced underneath a regional ice cap. This unit is unconformably overlain by several massive Holocene lavas, above which lies a thick sequence of latest-Holocene pyroclastic deposits likely deposited during the crater-forming eruption. The...
Tags: Active Volcanoes,
Age Dates,
Aleutian Arc,
Aleutian Islands,
Alluvial Deposits, All tags...
Analyses,
Analyses and Sampling,
Basalt,
Bedrock,
Bedrock Geology,
Caldera,
Chemistry,
Colluvium,
Erosion,
Fan,
Geochemical Data,
Geochemistry,
Geochronology,
Geologic,
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Map,
Geological Process,
Geology,
Geomorphology,
Hazards,
Historic Eruption,
Igneous,
Kasatochi,
Lava Flow,
Mineralogy,
Petrographic,
Petrography,
Petrology,
Pumice,
Pyroclastics,
Rockfall,
Rocks,
Sample Location,
Slope Instability,
Slump,
Soils,
Surface,
Surficial,
Talus,
Tephra,
Topography,
Ultramafic,
Uplift,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Ash,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcaniclastics,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
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This publication contains previously unpublished geochemical analyses or re-analyses of lavas, magmatic inclusions, and a few gabbroic cumulate inclusions from Alaska volcanoes (Akutan, Augustine, Buzzard Creek, Dana, Douglas, Fourpeaked, Frosty, Great Sitkin, Iliamna, Kaguyak, Kiska, Okmok, Prindle Cone, Recheshnoi, Redoubt, Spurr, Ukinrek Maars, Vsevidof, Westdahl, Wrangell) collected by the authors and others over the past 35 years. It provides substantial data sets for three volcanoes (Vsevidof, Westdahl, and Douglas) for which little or no published data exist. All analyses were made by the GeoAnalytical laboratory at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. The ICP/MS data have been reduced using the 2006...
Tags: Adagdak,
Adak,
Akutan,
Analyses,
Analyses and Sampling, All tags...
Analytical Lab Results,
Analytical Results,
Augustine,
Augustine Volcano,
Basalt,
Bedrock,
Bogoslof,
Chemistry,
Colorado Creek,
Crater Peak,
Crystals,
Douglas,
Faris Peak,
Fourpeaked,
Frosty,
Frosty Peak,
Geochemical Data,
Geochemistry,
Geochronology,
Geologic,
Geology,
Glacier Creek,
Hayes,
Hazards,
Ice,
Iliamna,
Iliamna Volcano,
Jag Peak,
Juneau,
Kaguyak,
Kansas Creek,
Kasatochi,
Katmai,
Kiska,
Maars,
Mount Douglas,
Mount Peulik,
Mount Recheshnoi,
Mount Spurr,
Mount Wrangell,
Mount Zanetti,
Nikolski,
Okmok,
Okmok Caldera,
Pavlof,
Prindle Volcano,
Redoubt,
Redoubt Volcano,
Rhyolite,
Rocks,
Sample Location,
Spurr,
Tanana,
Tephra,
The Sisters,
Ukinrek,
Ukinrek Maars,
Uliaga,
Umnak Island,
Unimak,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Arc,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
Vsevidof,
Westdahl,
Whittier,
Wrangell,
Yakutat,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Following the May 2005 acid crater lake flood at Chiginagak volcano, DGGS has been monitoring crater lake water that flows into Indecision Creek, Mother Goose Lake, and the King Salmon River. This data table provides information on water samples collected between 2005 and 2012 near Chiginagak volcano, including: sample ID, latitude, longitude, location description, pH, and cation and anion chemistry results.
Tags: Chiginagak,
Indecision Creek,
Inorganic Contamination,
King Salmon River,
Mother Goose Hot Springs, All tags...
Mother Goose Lake,
Mount Chiginagak,
Ugashik Quadrangle,
Volcano Creek,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
Water Chemistry,
Water Quality,
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The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) uses an informal set of names for about 140 'volcanoes.' Some names refer to large, complex volcanic centers, while others indicate only a specific cone. This publication expands the list of 140 named volcanoes to include all volcanic vents where magma has reached the surface over the past 2.6 million years. This database of all known (published, or unpublished with permission) Quaternary volcanic vents was developed to better describe the nature and character of Quaternary volcanism in Alaska and specifically to aid in the discussion of spatial and temporal patterns of Alaska volcanism. This list is a preliminary starting point, and we hope that it is updated and expanded by...
Tags: Adak Quadrangle,
Alaska Peninsula,
Aleutian Islands,
Amukta Quadrangle,
Atka Quadrangle, All tags...
Baird Inlet Quadrangle,
Bendeleben Quadrangle,
Candle Quadrangle,
Chignik Quadrangle,
Cold Bay Quadrangle,
Cook Inlet,
Craig Quadrangle,
Fairbanks Quadrangle,
False Pass Quadrangle,
Gareloi Island Quadrangle,
Goodnews Bay Quadrangle,
Gulkana Quadrangle,
Hazards,
Healy Quadrangle,
Hooper Bay Quadrangle,
Iliamna Quadrangle,
Karluk Quadrangle,
Kenai Quadrangle,
Ketchikan Quadrangle,
Kiska Quadrangle,
Kotzebue Quadrangle,
Kwiguk Quadrangle,
Lake Clark Quadrangle,
Marshall Quadrangle,
McCarthy Quadrangle,
Mount Katmai Quadrangle,
Nabesna Quadrangle,
Naknek Quadrangle,
Nunivak Island Quadrangle,
Petersburg Quadrangle,
Port Moller Quadrangle,
Pribilof Islands Quadrangle,
Rat Islands Quadrangle,
Saint Lawrence Quadrangle,
Saint Michael Quadrangle,
Samalga Island Quadrangle,
Seguam Quadrangle,
Selawik Quadrangle,
Seward Peninsula,
Sitka Quadrangle,
Southeast Alaska,
Stepovak Bay Quadrangle,
Sutwik Island Quadrangle,
Tanacross Quadrangle,
Tyonek Quadrangle,
Ugashik Quadrangle,
Umnak Quadrangle,
Unalakleet Quadrangle,
Unalaska Quadrangle,
Unimak Quadrangle,
Valdez Quadrangle,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
Wrangell Mountains,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a potential tsunami risk for communities of Homer and Seldovia in the Kachemak Bay area, Alaska. This report provides guidance to the local emergency managers in tsunami hazard assessment. We used a numerical modeling method to estimate the extent of inundation due to tsunami waves generated by earthquake sources. Our tsunami scenarios included a repeat of the tsunami of the 1964 great Alaska earthquake, as well as a hypothetical tsunami wave generated by a local fault source. We didn't consider landslide-generated tsunamis in this study. Results of numerical modeling combined with historical observations in the region are intended to help local emergency services officials...
Tags: Active Fault,
Alaska Earthquake 1964,
Alaska, State of,
Bathymetry,
Coastal, All tags...
Coastal and River,
Cook Inlet,
Earthquake,
Emergency Preparedness,
Engineering,
Engineering Geology,
Fault Displacement,
Faulting,
Faults,
Flood,
Geologic Hazards,
Geology,
Homer,
Inundation,
Kenai Peninsula Borough Coastal District,
Modeling,
Seismic Hazards,
Seldovia Quadrangle,
Surface,
Tides,
Tsunami,
Volcanoes,
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate potential tsunami hazards for the community of Whittier and western Passage Canal area. We numerically model the extent of inundation due to tsunami waves generated from earthquake and landslide sources. Tsunami scenarios include a repeat of the tsunami triggered by the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, as well as tsunami waves generated by a hypothetically extended 1964 rupture, a hypothetical Cascadia megathrust earthquake, hypothetical earthquakes in Prince William Sound, and Kodiak asperities of the 1964 rupture. Local underwater landslide and rockslide events in Passage Canal are also considered as credible tsunamigenic scenarios. Results of numerical modeling combined with...
Tags: Active Fault,
Alaska Earthquake 1964,
Bathymetry,
Coastal,
Coastal and River, All tags...
Earthquake,
Earthquake Related Slope Failure,
Emergency Preparedness,
Engineering,
Engineering Geology,
Fault Displacement,
Faulting,
Faults,
Flood,
Geologic Hazards,
Geology,
Landslide,
Modeling,
Passage Canal,
Rock Avalanche,
Rockfall,
Seismic Hazards,
Slides,
Slope,
Slope Instability,
Tides,
Tsunami,
Volcanoes,
Whittier,
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The 2008 eruption of Kasatochi volcano caused major topographic changes to Kasatochi Island, making all prior topographic maps and data obsolete. The topographic map and data presented here are derived from stereoscopic satellite images acquired on April 18, 2009. Subsequent topographic data has not been acquired, although there has been substantial topographic modification to the island, particularly to the shoreline, since these data were acquired.
Tags: Aleutian Islands,
Atka Quadrangle,
Digital Elevation Model,
Geodatabase,
Geology, All tags...
Geomorphology,
Kasatochi,
Satellite,
Shaded Relief,
Surface,
Topography,
Volcanoes,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Mount Chiginagak is a hydrothermally active volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, approximately 170 km south-southwest of King Salmon, Alaska. This small stratovolcano, approximately 8 km in diameter, has erupted through Tertiary to Permian sedimentary and igneous rocks. The eruptive products of Chiginagak volcano record a history of chiefly andesite lava flows and associated block-and-ash flows. The oldest lavas exposed are Pleistocene in age and are found everywhere around the edifice except in the northeast sector, where Holocene lava flows dominate the landscape. Holocene activity has covered the northeast flank with rubbly-topped andesite lava flows that extend as far as 4.6 km from their source vent at the summit...
Tags: Alaska Peninsula,
Aleutian Range,
Analyses,
Chiginagak,
Gas, All tags...
Geochemistry,
Geochronology,
Geologic,
Geology,
Hazards,
Igneous,
Lahar,
Mount Chiginagak,
Neoglacial,
Pumice,
Rocks,
Sediment,
Sulfur,
Surface,
Surficial,
Tephra,
Ugashik Quadrangle,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Ash,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcanic Gas,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcaniclastic Deposits,
Volcaniclastics,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
Water,
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Mount Chiginagak is a hydrothermally active volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, approximately 170 km south-southwest of King Salmon, Alaska. This small stratovolcano, approximately 8 km in diameter, has erupted through Tertiary to Permian sedimentary and igneous rocks. The eruptive products of Chiginagak volcano record a history of chiefly andesite lava flows and associated block-and-ash flows. The oldest lavas exposed are Pleistocene in age and are found everywhere around the edifice except in the northeast sector, where Holocene lava flows dominate the landscape. Holocene activity has covered the northeast flank with rubbly-topped andesite lava flows that extend as far as 4.6 km from their source vent at the summit...
Tags: Alaska Peninsula,
Aleutian Range,
Analyses,
Chiginagak,
Gas, All tags...
GeMS NCGMP09,
Geochemistry,
Geochronology,
Geologic,
Geology,
Hazards,
Igneous,
Lahar,
Mount Chiginagak,
Neoglacial,
Pumice,
Rocks,
Sediment,
Sulfur,
Surface,
Surficial,
Tephra,
Ugashik Quadrangle,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Ash,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcanic Gas,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcaniclastic Deposits,
Volcaniclastics,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
Water,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Jumbo Dome is a hornblende andesite dome of Pleistocene age located in the Healy Quadrangle of central Alaska, about 19 km northeast of Healy, Alaska. Jumbo Dome is approximately 1.6 km long, 1.3 km wide, and 500 m high and intrudes the Devonian Keevy Peak Formation basement (slate, quartz-sericite schist, graphitic schist, calcareous schist, quartz-feldspar metawacke, and conglomerate) and overlying Tertiary Suntrana Formation (sandstone, clay, and coal). Jumbo Dome is not well studied and these samples plus the three analyses from Albanese (1980) represent the known total of published whole-rock geochemical analyses for this volcanic feature. Jumbo Dome lava has the diagnostic arc signature of low ratios of concentrations...
The Geologic Photos of Alaska database and online application contains photographs taken during and in support of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) projects. These photographs primarily document field sites and geomorphology statewide, usually in remote locations that are often impossible or prohibitively expensive to revisit. The database (http://maps.dggs.alaska.gov/photodb/) includes a variety of images such as field photos, photos of samples, and photomicrographs (photograph of a microscopic object) taken with the aid of a microscope.
Tags: Alaska Statewide Quadrangle,
Alaska, State of,
Analyses and Sampling,
Energy Resources,
Geologic, All tags...
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Materials,
Geological Process,
Geology,
Geomorphology,
Glaciers,
Igneous Rocks,
Metamorphic Rocks,
Mineral Resources,
Resource Information,
Resources,
Rock Units,
Rocks,
Sample Location,
Sand and Gravel,
Sedimentary Rocks,
Structural Geology,
Structure,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcanoes,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Kasatochi is a small, isolated island volcano in the center of the Aleutian Island chain. It consists of a roughly circular cone approximately 3 km in diameter with a lake-filled central crater that is 1.2 km in diameter and extends from the highest point on the island to sea level. The oldest unit recognized is a thick series of mid-Pleistocene glaciovolcanic deposits consisting of autobrecciated lava, lahars, and volumetrically minor lava masses that we believe to have been emplaced underneath a regional ice cap. This unit is unconformably overlain by several massive Holocene lavas, above which lies a thick sequence of latest-Holocene pyroclastic deposits likely deposited during the crater-forming eruption. The...
Tags: Active Volcanoes,
Age Dates,
Aleutian Arc,
Aleutian Islands,
Alluvial Deposits, All tags...
Analyses,
Analyses and Sampling,
Basalt,
Bedrock,
Bedrock Geology,
Caldera,
Chemistry,
Colluvium,
Erosion,
Fan,
Geochemical Data,
Geochemistry,
Geochronology,
Geologic,
Geologic Hazards,
Geologic Map,
Geological Process,
Geology,
Geomorphology,
Hazards,
Historic Eruption,
Igneous,
Kasatochi,
Lava Flow,
Mineralogy,
Petrographic,
Petrography,
Petrology,
Pumice,
Pyroclastics,
Rockfall,
Rocks,
Sample Location,
Slope Instability,
Slump,
Soils,
Surface,
Surficial,
Talus,
Tephra,
Topography,
Ultramafic,
Uplift,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Ash,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcanic Rocks,
Volcaniclastics,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
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This Raw Data File presents major-oxide glass geochemical results from the ca. 3.6 ka caldera-forming eruption of Aniakchak volcano, Alaska. These data are part of a larger effort to identify and characterize tephra deposits from the largest eruptions in Alaska for use as geochronological marker horizons. Aniakchak is one of at least 29 volcanoes in Alaska that has had multiple large tephra-producing eruptions. Other deposit and sample metadata including geospatial distributions of this tephra deposit are held in the Alaska Volcano Observatory's online database, the Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA), and will be linked to these new geochemical data once published. Products included...
Tags: Alaska Peninsula,
Analyses,
Analyses and Sampling,
Analytical Lab Results,
Analytical Results, All tags...
Aniakchak,
Archaeology,
Caldera,
Coastal,
Geochemistry,
Geologic,
Geology,
Glass,
Hazards,
Methods,
Minerals,
Tephra,
Tephrochronology,
Tephrostratigraphy,
Volcanic,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
Alaska Volcano Observatory's geochemical database contains published whole-rock data for Quaternary volcanic rocks in Alaska, linked to geologist, publication, source volcano (where possible), and other sample and analysis metadata. This database also contains water cation and anion data for recent AVO studies. This website allows users to query the database and return datasets as fully-documented .html or .csv tables. It is our intention to update this dataset as new volcano-related geochemical data is published.
This data lists the historically active volcanoes of Alaska and the year of the last major eruptive event. The volcanoes listed meet at least one of the following criteria since 1700 CE: 1) Documented, unquestioned eruption OR 2) A strongly suspected eruption, often an eruption documented in a historical account with very little information. Current geologic knowledge must not contradict the eruption account, OR 3) Persistent (usually on the order of decades, but certainly longer than several months) fumaroles, with temperatures (where measured) within approximately 10 degrees C of the boiling point, OR 4) Significant, measured, volcanic-related, non-eruptive deformation, OR 5) Documented earthquake swarm with strongly...
Tags: Active Volcanoes,
Alaska Peninsula,
Alaska Statewide Maps,
Alaska, State of,
Aleutian Arc, All tags...
Aleutian Islands,
Coastal and River,
Coastal and River Hazards,
Geologic Hazards,
Geology,
Hazards,
Historic Eruption,
Volcanic,
Volcanic Eruption,
Volcano Hazards,
Volcanoes,
Volcanology,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
This 30-meter, horizontal, cell-size, shaded relief, georeferenced TIFF image of Okmok Volcano, Umnak Island, Alaska, was created by combining digital elevation model (DEM) data provided by NASA's shuttle radar topography mission (SRTM) and the aircraft-mounted synthetic aperture radar (AirSAR) mission.
Tags: Aleutian Arc,
Fox Islands,
Geomorphology,
Hillshade Image,
Okmok, All tags...
Okmok Volcano,
Shaded Relief,
Umnak Island,
Volcanoes,
geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags
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