Koniuji 15200 yBP

Start: 15200 yBP ± 5000 Years [1]

Event Type: Effusive

Event Characteristics:
  • Lava flow [1]

Description: From Jicha (2009): "Four experiments on two samples (KON-07-01 and -02) of a clinopyroxene-phyric basaltic andesite flow along the southern shoreline gave a weighted mean 40Ar/39Ar age of 15.2+/-5.0 (2 sigma) (Figs.2-4 [in original text]).This lava flow contains large (>1 cm) augite megacrysts similar to those found in the basalts of Roundhead volcano on Kanaga Island ~250 km to the west (Brophy and others, 1999)."
"40Ar/39Ar age determinations indicate that it is a young stratovolcano that emerged above sea level at ~15.2 ka."

References Cited

[1] Holocene volcanic activity at Koniuji Island, Aleutians, 2009

Jicha, B.R., 2009, Holocene volcanic activity at Koniuji Island, Aleutians: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 185, n. 3, p. 214-222.

Complete Eruption References

Holocene volcanic activity at Koniuji Island, Aleutians, 2009

Jicha, B.R., 2009, Holocene volcanic activity at Koniuji Island, Aleutians: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 185, n. 3, p. 214-222.
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