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Mount Denison description and information

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Official Name: Mount Denison
Type:Stratovolcano
Most Recent Activity:
Seismically Monitored: No
Elevation: 7605 ft (2318 m)
Latitude: 58.4173° N
Longitude:154.451° W
Quadrangle:Mt Katmai
CAVW Number:312210
Pronunciation: Sound file
Nearby towns:Karluk 59 mi (94 km) SW
Larsen Bay 63 mi (102 km) SE
Aleneva 63 mi (101 km) SE
Afognak 67 mi (109 km) SE
Anchorage 250 mi (402 km) NE
DESCRIPTION
From Smithsonian Institution, online database, accessed December 8, 2003: "Mount Denison lies near the head of the Serpent Tongue, Hook, and Hallo glaciers NE of Snowy volcano. This poorly known section of Katmai National Park contains a cluster of four closely spaced and mostly ice-covered vents. Mount Denison lies at the SW end of this volcanic chain, which also includes Steller, Kukak, and Devils Desk volcanoes. Orientation of lava flows and a thick cross-bedded tephra deposit suggest that a vent is located near Mount Denison (Swanson, in Wood and Kienle 1990) [1]. The precise age of the most recent activity at Denison is not known, but the volcano was considered to have been active during the Holocene [2]."
REFERENCES CITED
[1]
Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada, 1990
Wood, C. A., and Kienle, Juergen, (eds.), 1990, Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada: New York, Cambridge University Press, 354 p.

[2]
Volcanoes of Alaska, 1998
citation imageNye, C. J., Queen, Katherine, and McCarthy, A. M., 1998, Volcanoes of Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular IC 0038, unpaged, 1 sheet, scale 1:4,000,000, available at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=7043 .
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