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Monte Okmok
Okmok
- Tipo
- Vulcano a scudo
- Altitudine
- 1073 m
- Ultima eruzione
- 2008

- Tipo
- Vulcano a scudo
- Paese
- Stati Uniti
- Regione
- Nord America / Aleutian Ridge Volcanic Arc
- Altitudine
- 1073 m
- Coordinate
- 53.430, -168.130
- Ultima eruzione
- 2008
- Contesto tettonico
- Zona di subduzione / Crosta intermedia (15-25 km)
- Forma vulcanica
- A scudo
- Roccia principale
- Basalto / Picrobasalto
Sintesi geologica
The basaltic Okmok shield volcano forms the NE end of Umnak Island in the Aleutian Islands. The summit of the low, 35-km-wide volcano is cut by two overlapping 10-km-wide calderas formed during eruptions about 12,000 and 2,050 years ago when dacitic pyroclastic flows reached the coast. More than 60 tephra layers from Okmok have been found overlying the 12,000-year-old caldera-forming tephra layer. Numerous cones and lava domes are present on the flanks down to the coast, including the SE-flank Mount Tulik, which is almost 200 m higher than the caldera rim. Some of the post-caldera cones show evidence of wave-cut lake terraces; more recent cones were formed after the caldera lake, once 150 m deep, disappeared. Eruptions have been reported since 1805 from cinder cones within the caldera, where there are also hot springs and fumaroles.
Sintesi da Wikipedia
Riassunto in ingleseMount Okmok is a volcano on eastern Umnak Island, in the central-eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Part of the Aleutian Volcanic Arc, it was formed by the subduction of the oceanic Pacific Plate under the North American Plate. Okmok is a large shield volcano capped by a 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) wide caldera. The caldera contains numerous cinder cones, their lava flows, and a few lakes. Okmok erupts mainly basaltic lava, mostly from the cones within the caldera.
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Storia delle eruzioni
19 registrateGlossarioCronologia dettagliata
- 2008VEI 4Osservata2008-07-12 – 2008-08-19NE caldera floor
- 1997VEI 3Osservata1997-02-11 – 1997-05-19SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1986VEI 2Osservata1986-11-18 – 1988-02-26SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1983VEI 2Osservata1983-07-08 – 1983-07-08SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1981VEI 3Osservata1981-03-24 – 1981-03-24SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1960VEI 3Osservata1960-10-15 – 1961-04-15SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1958VEI 3Osservata1958-08-14 – 1958-08-25SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1945VEI 2Osservata1945-06-04 – 1945-12-16SW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1943VEI 1Osservata1943-06-16 – fine sconosciutaSW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1938VEI ?Osservata1938-07-02 – fine sconosciutaSW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1936VEI ?Metodo non indicato1936-07-02 – fine sconosciutaSW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1931VEI 2Osservata1931-03-21 – 1931-05-13Cone A?
- 1899VEI 3Osservata1899-07-02 – fine sconosciutaSW part of caldera (Cone A)
- 1878VEI 2Osservata1878-07-02 – fine sconosciutaCone A?
- 1824VEI ?Osservata1824-07-02 – 1830-07-02Cone B?
- 1817VEI 3Osservata1817-03-01 – 1820-07-02Cone E? or B?
- 1805VEI ?Osservata1805-07-02 – fine sconosciuta
- 100 a.C. (±50 anni)VEI 6Stima geologica100 a.C. – fine sconosciutaOkmok II caldera
- 6310 a.C. (±500 anni)VEI 4Stima geologica6310 a.C. – fine sconosciuta
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