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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Buzzard Creek
A small lake partially fills a 300-m-wide tuff ring, the larger of two craters of Buzzard Creek. Both craters formed during phreatomagmatic eruptions about 3,000 years ago, and are 320 km NE of their nearest neighbor in the Aleutian arc, Hayes volcano. Photo by Chris Nye (Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Alaska Volcano Observatory).
Volcano Number:
315001
Volcano Name:
Buzzard Creek
Country:
United States
Volcano Type:
Tuff ring(s)
Last Eruption:
1050 BCE
Elevation:
830m
Tectonic Setting:
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 30km:
12
Pop. within 100km:
79489
Latitude:
64.0616
Longitude:
-148.4327
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Two Holocene tuff rings form craters 300 and 66 m wide near the headwaters of Buzzard Creek at the northern foot of the central Alaska Range NE of the town of Healy along the Parks Highway. Both contain small lakes, and the smaller ring is about 200 m SE of the larger one. The total volume of ejecta, most of which is accessory material, probably does not exceed 0.001 km3. The ejecta overlies young glacial terraces that correlate with a glacial stage that ended about 10,000 years ago, and radiocarbon dates give an age for the eruption that formed the tuff rings of about 3,000 years. This minor volcanic feature lies along trend with the Aleutian arc, but is located 320 km NE of its nearest Holocene neighbor (Hayes volcano), and directly over the northernmost corner of the subducting Pacific Plate.
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