Kiska 1964/3

Start: March 18, 1964 [1]

Event Type: Effusive

Event Characteristics:
  • Lava flow [1]
  • Flank eruption [1]

Description: Coats (1964) reported an eruption of Kiska volcano beginning March 18, 1964, from a flank cone, with lava flow, and speculates that the 1964 eruption is "essentially one eruption" with the earlier 1962 eruption. He also states that "the explosive phase has stopped but lava flow continues."

References Cited

[1] Aleutian Islands and Alaska, 1964

Coats, R. R., 1964, Aleutian Islands and Alaska: Bulletin of Volcanic Eruptions, v. 4, p. 4.

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

Aleutian Islands and Alaska, 1964

Coats, R. R., 1964, Aleutian Islands and Alaska: Bulletin of Volcanic Eruptions, v. 4, p. 4.
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC file cabinet
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