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Cleveland 1953/6

Start: June 25, 1953 [1]

Event Type: Explosive

Event Characteristics:
  • Tephrafall [1]
Description: From Miller and others (1998): "On June 25, 1953, a military observer reported dark ash on the snow around the vent of Mt. Cleveland (report on file at Geophysical Institution, University of Alaska, Fairbanks)."
Military observers also reported steam on December 19, 1953.

References Cited

[1] Volcano observations, 1954

Unknown, 1954, Volcano observations: Unpublished volcano observation sheets filled out by U.S. military and stored on file at the Geophyiscal Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, unpaged.

Complete Eruption References

Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska, 1998

Miller, T. P., McGimsey, R. G., Richter, D. H., Riehle, J. R., Nye, C. J., Yount, M. E., and Dumoulin, J. A., 1998, Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0582, 104 p.
title page PDF 52
intro and TOC PDF 268 KB
eastern part - Wrangell to Ukinrek Maars PDF 972 KB
central part - Chiginagak to Cleveland PDF 2,463 KB
western part - Carlisle to Kiska PDF 956 KB
references PDF 43 KB
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC shelf

Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition], 1994

Simkin, Tom, and Siebert, Lee, 1994, Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition]: Tucson, Arizona, Geoscience Press, 349 p.
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC shelf

Volcano observations, 1954

Unknown, 1954, Volcano observations: Unpublished volcano observation sheets filled out by U.S. military and stored on file at the Geophyiscal Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, unpaged.
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC file cabinet

Current activity of Aleutian volcanoes, 1953

Powers, H. A., 1953, Current activity of Aleutian volcanoes: The Volcano Letter, v. 522, p. 6.
full-text PDF 397 KB
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC file cabinet