Mageik


Facts


  • Official Name: Mount Mageik
  • Seismically Monitored: Yes
  • Color Code: GREEN
  • Alert Level: NORMAL
  • Elevation: 2165m (7103ft)
  • Latitude: 58.1946
  • Longitude: -155.2544
  • Smithsonian VNum: 312150
  • Pronunciation:
  • Nearby Towns:
    • Karluk 52 mi (84 km) SE
    • Kanatak 52 mi (84 km) SW
    • King Salmon 61 mi (99 km) NW
    • Larsen Bay 65 mi (105 km) SE
    • Bristol Bay Borough 73 mi (117 km) NW

Description

From Miller and others (1998) [1] : "Mount Mageik is a broad cone-shaped volcano that rests on a basement of Jurassic sedimentary rocks at the northeast end of a 12-km-long basement ridge shared by neighboring Mount Martin. The summit area, which is largely ice-covered, consists of a central high peak (elevation 2165 m) and three smaller topographic highs, each a separate vent-cone. A small (<1 km in diameter) phreatic crater on the northeast side of the central peak contains a crater lake and supports vigorous fumarolic activity accompanied by sulfur deposition. The slopes of the volcano are moderately dissected by glacial ice, except the young lava flows of the east side. Two small debris avalanches, including the Mageik landslide - one of which occurred during the 1912 Katmai eruption [2] originated from areas high and low on the south flank. The 1912 avalanches, containing boulders as big as 3 to 5 m, traveled 6 km down the broad valley of Martin Creek, south and east of Mount Mageik."

Name Origin

"Mount Mageik" is reported in 1917 by R.F. Griggs as a Native name, and "Mageik Volcano" on his map and "Mount Mageik" in his text (Orth, 1971).


References Cited

[1] Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska, 1998

Miller, 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.

[2] The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 1922

Griggs, R. F., 1922, The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes: Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 340 p., 3 sheets, scale unknown.

Current Activity

No new updates for Mageik volcano since January 11, 2023, 2:08 pm.

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