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Eruption in an ice-filled caldera, Mount Veniaminof, Alaska Peninsula: A section in The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1983

January 1, 1985
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The more prominent of the two visible intracaldera cones of Mount Veniaminof went into eruption in early June 1983 and continued until early April 1984. Veniaminof is a 2,507-m-high composite cone having an 8 x 11-km summit caldera which formed 3,300-3,700 yr B.P. (Miller and Smith, 1977). The active 1.6x1.2-km cone protrudes 200 m through the glacial ice filling the caldera; it lies in a 60-m-long belt of cinder cones that is transverse to the trend of the Aleutian arc (fig. 44).

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Publication Year 1985
Title Eruption in an ice-filled caldera, Mount Veniaminof, Alaska Peninsula: A section in The United States Geological Survey in Alaska: Accomplishments during 1983
DOI 10.3133/70180231
Authors M. Elizabeth Yount, Thomas P. Miller, Richard P. Emanuel, Frederic H. Wilson
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Circular
Series Number 945
Index ID 70180231
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Alaska Science Center; Alaska Volcano Observatory

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