Gordon
Facts
- Official Name: Mount Gordon
- Seismically Monitored: No
- Color Code: UNASSIGNED
- Alert Level: UNASSIGNED
- Elevation: 2755m (9038ft)
- Latitude: 62.1312
- Longitude: -143.0883
- Smithsonian VNum: 315021
- Pronunciation:
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Nearby Towns:
- Chisana 34 mi (55 km) SE
- Slana 49 mi (78 km) NW
- McCarthy 49 mi (78 km) SE
- Chistochina 59 mi (95 km) NW
- Mentasta Lake 60 mi (96 km) NW
Distance from Anchorage: 232 mi (373 km)
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Subfeatures:
- Horseshoe Mesa
Description
From Miller and Richter (1994) [1] : "This is the largest of the young (<1.5 Ma) basalt-basaltic andesite cinder cones that are common in the northwestern part of the Wrangell volcanic field. The cone of Mt. Gordon, about 5 km in diameter and 600 m high above its base of older Wrangell lava, also erupted a significant volume of basaltic lava flows [2] ."Name Origin
Mount Gordon was named for a prospector who was in the area in 1899. F.C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey, reported the name in 1903 (Orth, 1971).