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Mount Emmons (Alaska)

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Topo map
  
USGS Cold Bay B-1

Volcanic arc/belt
  
Aleutian Arc

Elevation
  
1,436 m

Mountain type
  
Caldera

Last eruption
  
Unknown

Parent range
  
Aleutian Range

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Location
  
Alaska Peninsula. Alaska, U.S.

Mountain range
  
Aleutian Range, Adirondack Mountains

Similar
  
Pavlof Sister, Mount Kialagvik, Kookooligit Mountains, Mount Chiginagak, Ugashik‑Peulik

Mount Emmons is a post-caldera stratovolcano within the Emmons Lake caldera on the Alaska Peninsula. It is one of three cones constructed within the 7-by-11-mile (11 km × 18 km) caldera, which also contains an elongated crater lake on its southwest side.

Map of Mt Emmons, Alaska, USA

The most recent of several caldera-forming eruptions at Emmons Lake occurred more than 10,000 years ago. No historical eruptions have occurred at Emmons Lake.

Mount Emmons is a local name published on a USGS map in 1943.

References

Mount Emmons (Alaska) Wikipedia