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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Tanaga
The three E-W-trending summit cones of the Tanaga volcanic complex, Sajaka, Tanaga, and East Tanaga (from left to right) are seen from the summit of Takawangha volcano. Tanaga is the central and highest of three at the NW tip of Tanaga Island. The ridge to the lower left is part of a caldera rim that formed by the collapse of an ancestral Tanaga edifice during the Pleistocene. Photo by Michelle Coombs, 2003 (Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey).
Volcano Number:
311080
Volcano Name:
Tanaga
Country:
United States
Volcano Type:
Stratovolcano(es)
Last Eruption:
1914 CE
Elevation:
1806m
Tectonic Setting:
Subduction zone / Intermediate crust (15-25 km)
Latitude:
51.885
Longitude:
-178.146
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Tanaga volcano, the second largest volcanic center of the central Aleutians, is the central and highest of three youthful stratovolcanoes oriented along a roughly E-W line at the NW tip of Tanaga Island. Ridges to the east and south represent the rim of an arcuate caldera formed by collapse of an edifice during the Pleistocene. Most Holocene eruptions originated from Tanaga volcano itself, which consists of two large cones, the western of which is the highest, constructed within a caldera whose 400-m-high rim is prominent to the SE. At the westernmost end of the complex is conical Sajaka, a double cone that may be the youngest of the three volcanoes. Sajaka One volcano collapsed during the late Holocene, producing a debris avalanche that swept into the sea, after which the Sajaka Two cone was constructed within the collapse scarp.
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