Gordon
Spurr
Great Sitkin
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Facts
- Official Name: Mount Gordon
- Seismically Monitored: No
- Color Code: UNASSIGNED
- Alert Level: UNASSIGNED
- Elevation: 2755m (9038ft)
- Latitude: 62.1312
- Longitude: -143.0883
- Smithsonian VNum: 315021
- Pronunciation:
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Nearby Towns:
- Chisana 34 mi (55 km) SE
- Slana 49 mi (78 km) NW
- McCarthy 49 mi (78 km) SE
- Chistochina 59 mi (95 km) NW
- Mentasta Lake 60 mi (96 km) NW
Distance from Anchorage: 232 mi (373 km)
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Subfeatures:
- Horseshoe Mesa
Description
From Miller and Richter (1994) [1] : "This is the largest of the young (<1.5 Ma) basalt-basaltic andesite cinder cones that are common in the northwestern part of the Wrangell volcanic field. The cone of Mt. Gordon, about 5 km in diameter and 600 m high above its base of older Wrangell lava, also erupted a significant volume of basaltic lava flows [2] ."Name Origin
Mount Gordon was named for a prospector who was in the area in 1899. F.C. Schrader, U.S. Geological Survey, reported the name in 1903 (Orth, 1971).
References Cited
[1] Quaternary volcanism in the Alaska Peninsula and Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, 1994
Miller, T. P., and Richter, D. H., 1994, Quaternary volcanism in the Alaska Peninsula and Wrangell Mountains, Alaska: in Plafker, George, Jones, D. L., and Berg, H. C., (eds.), The Geology of Alaska, Geological Society of America The Geology of North America series v. G-1, p. 759-779.[2] Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska, 1976
Richter, D.H., and Smith, R.L., 1976, Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska: US Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map 1292, 1 sheet, available at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=13027 .Reported Activity
Modern Eruptions
0 Event Date(s)
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Map Images
By:
U.S. Geological Survey
Topographic shaded relief map of Mt. Gordon, Alaska.
Topographic shaded relief map of Mt. Gordon, Alaska.
By:
Schaefer, J. R. G.
Index map to Quaternary volcanoes of the Wrangell Volcanic Field.
Index map to Quaternary volcanoes of the Wrangell Volcanic Field.
Map References
Map showing distribution, composition, and age of Late Cenozoic volcanic centers in Alaska, 1986
Luedke, R. G., and Smith, R. L., 1986, Map showing distribution, composition, and age of Late Cenozoic volcanic centers in Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I 1091-F, unpaged, 3 sheets, scale 1:1,000,000.
Geologic map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska, 1976
Richter, D. H., 1976, Geologic map of the Nabesna quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I 0932, unpaged, 1 plate, scale 1:250,000.
Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska, 1976
Richter, D.H., and Smith, R.L., 1976, Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska: US Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map 1292, 1 sheet, available at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=13027 .
Geology of the central Copper River region, Alaska, 1905
Mendenhall, W. C., 1905, Geology of the central Copper River region, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper PP 0041, 133 p., 1 plate, scale 1:63,360.
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plate 4 PDF 28.5 MB
plate 11 PDF 16 MB
plate 19 PDF 17.4 MB
plate 20 PDF 2.4 MB 
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