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Falling Mountain description and information

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Official Name: Falling Mountain
Type:Dome
Most Recent Activity:
Seismically Monitored: No
Elevation: 3806 ft (1160 m)
Latitude: 58.25457° N
Longitude:155.17474° W
Quadrangle:Mt Katmai
CAVW Number:
Nearby towns:Karluk 54 mi (87 km) SE
Kanatak 57 mi (92 km) SW
King Salmon 62 mi (99 km) NW
Larsen Bay 66 mi (106 km) SE
Anchorage 275 mi (442 km) NE
DESCRIPTION
From Wood and Kienle (1990) [1]: "Falling Mountain and Mount Cerberus are the twin domes of pyroxene dacite (64% SiO2) that frame the entrance to Katmai Pass. They are similar in volume (each 0.25 cubic km), composition, lithology, and weathering. Although undated, they are thought to be of early Holocene age because their carapaces are degraded but not significantly glaciated. The two domes are compositionally similar (but not identical) to 1912 dacite. Together with the rhyolitic Novarupta dome, they define a 3-km-long line parallel to, but 4 km behind, the volcanic front."
REFERENCES CITED
[1]
Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada, 1990
Wood, C. A., and Kienle, Juergen, (eds.), 1990, Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada: New York, Cambridge University Press, 354 p.

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