Mount Veniaminof When Might Erupt Again
| Mount Veniaminof | |
|---|---|
 Steam ascension from the intracaldera cinder cone at Veniaminof volcano in the waning stages of the 1983 to 1984 eruption. | |
| Highest betoken | |
| Top | eight,225 ft (2,507 m)[1] |
| Prominence | 8,199 ft (two,499 m)[two] |
| Listing |
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| Coordinates | 56°xi′53″North 159°23′27″Due west / 56.19806°N 159.39083°W / 56.19806; -159.39083 Coordinates: 56°eleven′53″N 159°23′27″W / 56.19806°N 159.39083°W / 56.19806; -159.39083 |
| Geography | |
| Mount Veniaminof Alaska Peninsula National Wild animals Refuge, Alaska, U.S. | |
| Parent range | Aleutian Range |
| Topo map | USGS Chignik A-5 |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Stratovolcano with a tiptop caldera |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Aleutian Arc |
| Final eruption | 2021 |
| U.S. National Natural Landmark | |
| Designated | 1967 |
Mount Veniaminof (Russian: Вулкан Вениаминова) is an active stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula. The mountain was named after Ioann (Ivan Popov) Veniaminov (1797–1879), a Russian Orthodox missionary priest (and after a prominent bishop in Russia) whose writings on the Aleut language and ethnology are however standard references. He is a saint of the Orthodox Church, known every bit Saint Innocent for the monastic proper noun he used in after life.
The volcano was the site of a colossal (VEI half dozen) eruption around 1750 BCE.[i] This eruption left a large caldera. In modern times the volcano has had numerous small eruptions (over ten of them since 1930), all at a cinder cone in the middle of the caldera.
Veniaminof is one of the highest of Alaskan volcanoes. Partly for this reason, it is covered by a glacier that fills most of the caldera. Because of the glacier and the caldera walls, there is the possibility of a major flood from a future glacier run.
The volcano recently began erupting on September three, 2018 equally magma broke through the top and flowed downward its slopes as a lava flow. Despite starting off every bit an effusive eruption, by Nov xx, the eruption became more than intense and ash was reaching 20,000 feet, prompting the AVO to requite a warning for aviation because of the ash posing a threat to aviation. Fifty-fifty an ashfall warning was issued for the nearby boondocks of Perryville.
In 1967, Mountain Veniaminof was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service.[3]
Map showing volcanoes of Alaska Peninsula.
See also [edit]
- List of mountain peaks of Alaska
- Listing of Ultras of the United States
- Listing of volcanoes in the U.s.
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Veniaminof". Global Volcanism Programme. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-01-09 .
- ^ "Alaskan ultra-prominent peaks". peaklist.org . Retrieved 2020-01-09 .
- ^ "National Natural Landmarks - National Natural Landmarks (U.Southward. National Park Service)". world wide web.nps.gov . Retrieved 2019-03-xx .
- Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs
- Alaska Volcano Observatory
External links [edit]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Veniaminof
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