Spurr 1000 yBP

Start: 1000 yBP [1]

Event Type: Explosive

Event Characteristics:
  • Tephrafall [1]

Description: From Waythomas and Nye (2002): "These deposits [mid-Holocene pyroclastic flow and lahar deposits] are overlain by a several-meters-thick soils-tephra sequence. The buried soils are rich in organic materials, and the tephra consists of thin (less than 1-centimeter-thick), fine-grained volcanic-ash deposits that probably record small explosive eruptions of Crater Peak about 1,000 years ago (fig. 5 [in original text])."

References Cited

[1] Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska, 2002

Waythomas, C. F., and Nye, C. J., 2002, Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0482, 46 p.
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Complete Eruption References

Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska, 2002

Waythomas, C. F., and Nye, C. J., 2002, Preliminary volcano-hazard assessment for Mount Spurr Volcano, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0482, 46 p.
full-text PDF 11.25 MB