Mount Spurr (Alaska, USA)
Mount Spurr, Alaska
| Volcano: | Mount Spurr (see Mount Spurr at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | Mount Spurr, the highest volcano of the Aleutian arc, is a large lava dome constructed at the center of a roughly 5 km-wide horseshoe-shaped caldera that is open to the south. Before the 1992 eruption, a small crater lake occupied the bottom of Crater Peak's crater. As with other Alaskan volcanoes, the proximity of Spurr to major trans-Pacific aviation routes means that an eruption of this volcano can significantly disrupt air travel. Volcanic ash can cause jet engines to fail. |
Point of contact for this site:
Michael P. Doukas, xxx (USGS)
Bibliographic references for this site
Doukas M.P. and K.A. McGee, 2007,A compilation of gas emission-rate data from volcanoes of Cook Inlet (Spurr, Crater Peak, Redoubt, Iliamna, and Augustine) and Alaska Peninsula (Douglas, Fourpeaked, Griggs, Mageik, Martin, Peulik, Ukinrek Maars, and Veniaminof), Alaska, from 1995-2006, U.S. Geological Survey_ Open-File Report 2007–1400
