Jarvis
Facts
- Official Name: Mount Jarvis
- Seismically Monitored: No
- Color Code: UNASSIGNED
- Alert Level: UNASSIGNED
- Elevation: 4091m (13421ft)
- Latitude: 62.0233
- Longitude: -143.6201
- Smithsonian VNum:
- Pronunciation:
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Nearby Towns:
- Chitina 44 mi (71 km) SW
- McCarthy 47 mi (75 km) SE
- Kenny Lake 47 mi (75 km) SW
- Slana 48 mi (78 km) NW
- Chistochina 50 mi (81 km) NW
Distance from Anchorage: 214 mi (344 km)
Description
From Miller and Richter (1994) [1] : "This mountain is the high point of a slightly curvilinear, north-trending, 10-km-long, 4,000-m-high ridge. The snow- and ice-covered ridge is composed of a thick sequence of dacitic and andesitic lava flows and capped by either a massive dacite flow or by a series of smaller dacite domes. One K-Ar age on basal (?) Jarvis flows suggests an age of about 1.6 M [2] ."Name Origin
Mount Jarvis was named in 1903 by F.C. Schrader, for Captain D.H. Jarvis, who spent several years in Alaska (Orth, 1971).