Akutan Harbor Tephra
Start: 6100 yBP [1]
Event Type: Explosive
- Tephrafall [1]
Description: From Waythomas and others (1998): "Volcanic ash from Akutan Volcano is typically dark brown or black, and ash of this color...appears in the stratigraphic record...about 6100 years ago in the Akutan Harbor area."
References Cited
[1] Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Akutan Volcano east-central Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1998
Waythomas, C. F., Power, J. A., Richter, D. H., and McGimsey, R. G., 1998, Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Akutan Volcano east-central Aleutian Islands, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0360, 36 p., 1 plate, scale unknown.
full-text PDF 1.68 MB
map sheet plate (PDF) 2.62 MB Complete Eruption References
Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Akutan Volcano east-central Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1998
Waythomas, C. F., Power, J. A., Richter, D. H., and McGimsey, R. G., 1998, Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Akutan Volcano east-central Aleutian Islands, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0360, 36 p., 1 plate, scale unknown.
full-text PDF 1.68 MB
map sheet plate (PDF) 2.62 MB 