Stepovak Bay 1, 1400000 yBP

Start: 400000 yBP [1]

Event Type: Effusive

Event Characteristics:
  • Lava flow [1]

Description: From Wilson (1989): "Age determinations were attempted on three young andesite flows from volcano 1...A second sample has yielded a preliminary age of 0.4 Ma (Nora Shew and F.H. Wilson, unpub. data, 1988)."

References Cited

[1] Geologic setting, petrology, and age of Pliocene to Holocene volcanoes of the Stepovak Bay area, western Alaska Peninsula, 1989

Wilson, F. H., 1989, Geologic setting, petrology, and age of Pliocene to Holocene volcanoes of the Stepovak Bay area, western Alaska Peninsula: in Dover, J. H. and Galloway, J. P., (eds.), Geological studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1988, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1903, p. 84-95.
full-text PDF 403 KB

Complete Eruption References

Geologic setting, petrology, and age of Pliocene to Holocene volcanoes of the Stepovak Bay area, western Alaska Peninsula, 1989

Wilson, F. H., 1989, Geologic setting, petrology, and age of Pliocene to Holocene volcanoes of the Stepovak Bay area, western Alaska Peninsula: in Dover, J. H. and Galloway, J. P., (eds.), Geological studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1988, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1903, p. 84-95.
full-text PDF 403 KB
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC file cabinet
× Instrument data