Mount Kaguyak

Mount Kaguyak
Mount Kaguyak
	Lake filled caldera of Kaguyak, August 1982.
Highest point
Elevation	2,956 ft (901 m)[1]
Listing	List of volcanoes in the United States
Coordinates	58°36′28.8″N 154°1′40.8″W
Geography
	Mount Kaguyak Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska Peninsula, U.S.
Parent range	Aleutian Range
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Volcanic arc/belt	Aleutian Arc[2]
Last eruption	3850 BCE[3]

Mount Kaguyak is a stratovolcano located in the northeastern part of the Katmai National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) wide caldera is filled by a more than 180 m deep crater lake. The surface of the crater lake lies about 550 m below the rim of the caldera. Postcaldera lava domes form a prominent peninsula in the center of the lake. The volcano is 901 metres (2,956 ft) high and is topographically prominent because it rises from lowland areas near sea level in the south of the Big River.

Based on radiocarbon dating the caldera-forming eruption occurred about 5800 years before present.[4] During this eruption at least 120 km² (46 sq mi) were covered in a dacitic ignimbrite.[4]

Map showing volcanoes of Alaska. The mark is set at the location of Mount Kaguyak

References

"Kaguyak Crater". Alaska Volcano Observatory. University of Alaska System. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
Neal, Christina A.; McGimsey, Robert G. "Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, Alaska: selected photographs". U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-40. doi:10.3133/ds40.
"Kaguyak". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
Fierstein, Judy (2007). "Explosive eruptive record in the Katmai region, Alaska Peninsula: an overview". Bulletin of Volcanology. 69 (5): 469–509. doi:10.1007/s00445-006-0097-y. ISSN 1432-0819.

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[avo-1] "Kaguyak Crater". Alaska Volcano Observatory. University of Alaska System. Retrieved 2017-12-24.

[aleut-2] Neal, Christina A.; McGimsey, Robert G. "Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands, Alaska: selected photographs". U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-40. doi:10.3133/ds40.

[gvp-3] "Kaguyak". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2017-12-24.

[Fierstein2006-4] Fierstein, Judy (2007). "Explosive eruptive record in the Katmai region, Alaska Peninsula: an overview". Bulletin of Volcanology. 69 (5): 469–509. doi:10.1007/s00445-006-0097-y. ISSN 1432-0819.