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Official Name: Iliamna Volcano
Type:Stratovolcano
Most Recent Activity:March 1, 1953
Seismically Monitored: Yes
Color Code:GREEN
Alert Level:NORMAL
Elevation: 10016 ft (3053 m)
Latitude: 60.0319° N
Longitude:153.0918° W
Quadrangle:Lake Clark
CAVW Number:313020
Pronunciation: Sound file
Associated Features:Johnson Glacier
South Twin
Nearby towns:Pedro Bay 39 mi (63 km) SW
Port Alsworth 44 mi (70 km) NW
Happy Valley 47 mi (76 km) SE
Anchor Point 47 mi (76 km) SE
Anchorage 136 mi (218 km) NE
DESCRIPTION
From Miller and others (1998) [1]: "Iliamna volcano is a broad, deeply dissected and highly altered, roughly cone-shaped mountain at the north end of a 5-km-long ridge trending N10W. Most of the volcano is covered by perennial snow and ice and numerous glaciers radiate from the summit area. Large avalanche deposits occur on the flanks of the volcano, particularly down the Umbrella Glacier on the southwest side of the volcano.

"The volcano is a typical composite stratovolcano composed of interbedded andesite lava flows and pyroclastic rocks. Steep, inaccessible 600-m-high headwalls along the southern and eastern flanks extend nearly to the summit exposing a cross section of the volcanic stratigraphy.

"Iliamna is built on a basement of Jurassic granitic rocks of the Aleutian Range batholith [2] that are juxtaposed against older, Lower Jurassic lava flows and pyroclastic rocks by the Bruin Bay fault, which lies several kilometers east of the summit."

REFERENCES CITED
[1]
Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska, 1998
citation imageMiller, T. P., McGimsey, R. G., Richter, D. H., Riehle, J. R., Nye, C. J., Yount, M. E., and Dumoulin, J. A., 1998, Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0582, 104 p.
Download PDF title page PDF : 52
Download PDF intro and TOC PDF : 268 KB
Download PDF eastern part - Wrangell to Ukinrek Maars PDF : 972 KB
Download PDF central part - Chiginagak to Cleveland PDF : 2,463 KB
Download PDF western part - Carlisle to Kiska PDF : 956 KB
Download PDF references PDF : 43 KB

[2]
Geology of Iniskin-Tuxedni region, Alaska, 1966
citation imageDetterman, R. L., and Hartsock, J. K., 1966, Geology of Iniskin-Tuxedni region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper PP 0512, 78 p., 6 sheets, scale 1:63,360, 1:96,000, 1:1,000,000.
Download PDF full-text PDF : 4.6 MB
Download PDF plate 1 PDF : 15 MB
Download PDF plate 2 PDF : 1.7 MB
Download PDF plate 3 PDF : 2.5 MB
Download PDF plate 4 PDF : 376 KB
Download PDF plate 5 PDF : 606 KB
Download PDF plate 6 PDF : 192 KB

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