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Mount Gilbert description and information

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Official Name: Mount Gilbert
Type:Stratovolcano?
Most Recent Activity:
Seismically Monitored: No
Elevation: 2684 ft (818 m)
Latitude: 54.2522° N
Longitude:165.6605° W
Quadrangle:Unimak
CAVW Number:311803
Pronunciation: Sound file
Nearby towns:Akutan 9 mi (15 km) SW
Unalaska 44 mi (71 km) SW
False Pass 99 mi (160 km) NE
Pauloff Harbor 120 mi (193 km) NE
Anchorage 751 mi (1209 km) NE
DESCRIPTION
From Wood and Kienle (1990) [1]: "Mount Gilbert is a small extinct volcano on northernmost Akun Island. Its northern flank is steep and heavily eroded, presumably by the sea, while its southern flank is little dissected. The summit region has been completely eroded and was presumably north of, and higher than, the present summit. A 20,000 square m zone of slightly older fumarolically altered rock exists 1.5 km northeast of the current summit. Prior to 1948, active fumaroles in this area produced steam plumes visible from a distance; fumarolic activity has since stopped. The altered ground was the site of an unsuccessful attempt to mine sulfur in the 1920's."
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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