Mount Mageik (Alaska, USA)
Mount Mageik (2,165 m high) and Mount Martin (1,863 m high; on skyline at right) volcanoes, both emitting steam plumes from their summits.
| Volcano: | Mount Mageik (see Mount Mageik at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | Mount Mageik is a volcano 2165 m high in Katmai National Park, on the Alaska Peninsula. It's a typical peak of the composite stratovolcano type, which has a boiling, fuming crater lake at its peak. Mageik sits at the head of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, which got its name after the great Katmai eruption of 1912. |
Point of contact for this site:
Michael P. Doukas, xxx (USGS)
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Mageik_07082004 | 7/8/2004 | Emanuela Bagnato | Oct. 4, 2014 |
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
