Mount Kialagvik
Kialagvik
Stratovulcano · United States · 1677 m

- Tipo
- Stratovulcano
- Paese
- United States
- Regione
- North America Volcanic Regions / Alaska Peninsula Volcanic Arc
- Altitudine
- 1677 m
- Coordinate
- 57.203, -156.745
- Ultima eruzione
- Sconosciuto
- Contesto tettonico
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Forma vulcanica
- Composite
- Roccia principale
- Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Sintesi geologica
Kialagvik is a small, poorly known glacier-mantled stratovolcano NE of Chiginagak volcano with a Holocene central lava dome and associated pyroclastic-flow deposits (Riehle, in Wood and Kienle 1990). The central dome rises 350 m above an ice field that mantles the upper part of the volcano. Andesitic lava flows and overlying dacitic block-and-ash-flow deposits are exposed broadly on the SW flank and in a small area on the NE flank. No historical activity is known.
Sintesi da Wikipedia
Riassunto in ingleseMount Kialagvik is a small, poorly known stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula of Alaska, United States, located in the Aleutian Range about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Mount Chiginagak. It is informally named after the Iñupiaq word for nearby Wide Bay. Kialagvik has not erupted in historic time.
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