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Wide Bay cone description and information

WIDE BAY CONE LINKS

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LOCATION
FACTS
Type:Cone
Most Recent Activity:
Seismically Monitored: No
Elevation: 2100 ft (640 m)
Latitude: 53.9611° N
Longitude:166.615° W
Quadrangle:Unalaska
CAVW Number:
Pronunciation: Sound file
Nearby towns:Unalaska 7 mi (11 km) SE
Akutan 36 mi (58 km) NE
Nikolski 117 mi (188 km) SW
False Pass 143 mi (230 km) NE
Anchorage 793 mi (1276 km) NE
DESCRIPTION
From Miller and others (1998) [1]: "Wide Bay cone, a small symmetric cone with an oval summit crater, occupies the northwest edge of Unalaska Bay." Wide Bay cone is Holocene in age, and is considered to represent a magmatic system separate from that of Makushin Volcano (Nye, personal commun., 2007). From McConnell and others (1998) [2]: "Basaltic tephra and lava flows form the monogenetic Wide Bay Cone near Eider Point, the easternmost volcano of the Makushin volcanic field. Both tephra and lava flows are dominated by up to 20 vol.% of large, single phenocrysts and glomerocrysts of clinopyroxene. The clinopyroxene is zoned and may reach 4 mm in diameter. Additional important phenocryst phases include plagioclase (15 to 19 vol.%), olivine (1 to 5 vol.%), and minor magnetite in a microlite-rich, sideromelane groundmass. Lowermost flows at the base of the cone are glacially striated although the cone remains well shaped with the summit vent depression preserved."
REFERENCES CITED
[1]
Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska, 1998
citation imageMiller, T. P., McGimsey, R. G., Richter, D. H., Riehle, J. R., Nye, C. J., Yount, M. E., and Dumoulin, J. A., 1998, Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0582, 104 p.
Download PDF title page PDF : 52
Download PDF intro and TOC PDF : 268 KB
Download PDF eastern part - Wrangell to Ukinrek Maars PDF : 972 KB
Download PDF central part - Chiginagak to Cleveland PDF : 2,463 KB
Download PDF western part - Carlisle to Kiska PDF : 956 KB
Download PDF references PDF : 43 KB

[2]
Geologic map of the Makushin volcanic field, Unalaska Island, Alaska, 1998
McConnell, V. S., Beget, J. E., Roach, A. L., Bean, K. W., and Nye, C. J., 1998, Geologic map of the Makushin volcanic field, Unalaska Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 97-20, unpaged, 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360.
Download website with links to map sheets and report in PDF format

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