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Skookum Creek description and information

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Description
From Miller and Richter (1994): "The Skookum Creek eruptive center is an erosionally dissected complex that may, in part, be as young as Quaternary. It consists principally of a series of rhyolite, rhyodacite, and andesite domes and their associated pyroclastic deposits, with an age of about 3.7 Ma, and an extensive sequence of relatively flat-lying andesite flows, some of which have been dated at 2.8 Ma (Lowe and others, 1982). Both the domes and the flows are intruded by a few rhyodacite and andesitic dikes that appear to originate from a rhyodacite dome near the center of the complex. Relations between the volcanic units of the complex suggest that the flat-lying flows fill a caldera that is defined by the crude arcuate alignment of the domes."
Location
Facts
Type:Andesite and basaltic andesite flows; dacite and rhyolite domes
Most Recent Activity:
Seismically Monitored: No
Elevation: 7126 ft (2172 m)
Latitude: 62.3996° N
Longitude:143.1371° W
Quadrangle:Nabesna
CAVW Number:
Pronunciation: Sound file
Nearby towns:
Slana 34 mi (54 km)
Mentasta Lake 42 mi (68 km)
Chisana 42 mi (68 km)
Chistochina 50 mi (81 km)
Anchorage 235 mi (378 km)
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