Jumbo Dome
Facts
- Official Name: Jumbo Dome
- Seismically Monitored: No
- Color Code: UNASSIGNED
- Alert Level: UNASSIGNED
- Elevation: 1369m (4491ft)
- Latitude: 63.975
- Longitude: -148.69444
- Smithsonian VNum:
- Pronunciation:
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Nearby Towns:
- Ferry 9 mi (14 km) NW
- Healy 12 mi (19 km) SW
- Denali Borough 12 mi (19 km) SW
- McKinley Park 18 mi (29 km) SW
- Anderson 30 mi (47 km) NW
Distance from Anchorage: 194 mi (313 km)
Description
From Albanese (1980) [1] : "Jumbo Dome is a large cylindrical plug of hornblende andesite 1.6 km long, 1.3 km wide, and 500 m high which intrudes the Devonian Keevy Peak Formation basement and overlying Tertiary Suntrana Formation." Ar/Ar dating by Athey and others (2006) [2] yields an age for Jumbo Dome of 1.026 +/- 0.057 Ma.Name Origin
"Jumbo Dome" is a local name reported in 1906 by L.M. Prindle (Orth, 1971).