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  • Official Name: Mount Jarvis
  • Seismically Monitored: No
  • Color Code: UNASSIGNED
  • Alert Level: UNASSIGNED
  • Elevation: 4091m (13421ft)
  • Latitude: 62.0233
  • Longitude: -143.6201
  • Smithsonian VNum:
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  • Nearby Towns:
    • Chitina 44 mi (71 km) SW
    • McCarthy 47 mi (75 km) SE
    • Kenny Lake 47 mi (75 km) SW
    • Slana 48 mi (78 km) NW
    • Chistochina 50 mi (81 km) NW

    Distance from Anchorage: 214 mi (344 km)

Description

From Miller and Richter (1994) [1] : "This mountain is the high point of a slightly curvilinear, north-trending, 10-km-long, 4,000-m-high ridge. The snow- and ice-covered ridge is composed of a thick sequence of dacitic and andesitic lava flows and capped by either a massive dacite flow or by a series of smaller dacite domes. One K-Ar age on basal (?) Jarvis flows suggests an age of about 1.6 M [2] ."

Name Origin

Mount Jarvis was named in 1903 by F.C. Schrader, for Captain D.H. Jarvis, who spent several years in Alaska (Orth, 1971).

References Cited

[1] Quaternary volcanism in the Alaska Peninsula and Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, 1994

Miller, T. P., and Richter, D. H., 1994, Quaternary volcanism in the Alaska Peninsula and Wrangell Mountains, Alaska: in Plafker, George, Jones, D. L., and Berg, H. C., (eds.), The Geology of Alaska, Geological Society of America The Geology of North America series v. G-1, p. 759-779.

[2] Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska, 1976

Richter, D.H., and Smith, R.L., 1976, Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska: US Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map 1292, 1 sheet, available at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=13027 .

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