Eruption of Churchill
1th century · 61.38° N, 141.75° W
Mount Churchill is a dormant volcano in the Saint Elias Mountains and the Wrangell Volcanic Field (WVF) of eastern Alaska. Churchill and its neighbor Mount Bona are both ice-covered volcanoes with Churchill having a 2.7-by-4.2-kilometre-wide caldera just east of its summit.
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What the records say
- When
- 1th century
- Kind
- Volcanic eruption
- Coordinates
- 61.38° N, 141.75° W
- Vei
- 6
- Date uncertainty
- ± 200 years
- Unit
- White River Ash (northern lobe)
- Dated by
- Isotopic: 14C (uncalibrated)
- Volcano number
- 315030
- Eruption number
- 20421
Mount Churchill
Volcano in the St Elias Mountains, Alaska
Mount Churchill is a dormant volcano in the Saint Elias Mountains and the Wrangell Volcanic Field (WVF) of eastern Alaska. Churchill and its neighbor Mount Bona are both ice-covered volcanoes with Churchill having a 2.7-by-4.2-kilometre-wide caldera just east of its summit. There are sparse outcrops of lava flows and tephra, mostly dacite.
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The source
- Smithsonian GVP Volcanoes of the World: Holocene eruptionsGlobal Volcanism Program, Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian terms of use: personal, educational and non-commercial use, with creditGlobal Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution: Volcanoes of the World v5.3, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW5-2025.5.3Source page