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    Novarupta is a volcano that was formed in 1912, located on the Alaska Peninsula on a slope of Trident Volcano in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about...
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    Preserve in Alaska which is filled with ash flow from the eruption of Novarupta on June 6–8, 1912. Following the eruption, thousands of fumaroles vented...
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    New Guinea and Novarupta volcano in Alaska as well as at Chaitén and Cordón Caulle volcanoes in southern Chile. The eruption of Novarupta in 1912 was the...
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    in 1918 to protect the area around the major 1912 volcanic eruption of Novarupta, which formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, a 40-square-mile (100 km2)...
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    Gradually Americans settled there, also engaging in hunting and fishing. Novarupta is a volcano 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Kodiak Island that erupted...
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  • explosive eruptions, but the fragmentation mechanism differs. The 1912 Novarupta eruption and the 2003 Stromboli eruption both exhibited a transition between...
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    thick. Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, formed by the eruption of Novarupta near Katmai in 1912, is an example of a thick pyroclastic flow or ignimbrite...
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    disasters in the 20th century: a volcanic ashfall from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta and a tsunami from the 1964 Alaska earthquake. After the Alaska Purchase...
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    volcanic eruption of the 20th century, behind only the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska. Eruptive activity began on April 2 as a series of phreatic...
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    caldera about two by three miles (3.2 by 4.8 km) in size, formed during the Novarupta eruption of 1912. The caldera rim reaches a maximum elevation of 6,716...
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    Thousand Smokes, for example, was formed during the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska. Initially, thousands of fumaroles occurred in the cooling ash...
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    one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century, after the 1912 Novarupta and 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruptions. It is also one of the five biggest...
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    andesite and dacite. The volcano is mantled in ash from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta and from the 1953 eruption of nearby Trident Volcano. List of volcanoes...
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    Katmai and its daughter volcano Novarupta in Alaska.[citation needed] In one of the greatest recorded volcanic events, Novarupta emitted enough fine ash into...
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    production of a rock called ignimbrite. This occurred during the eruption of Novarupta in 1912. Gravitational collapse of a lava dome or spine, with subsequent...
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    Ilopango (450), Huaynaputina (1600), Krakatoa (1883), Santa Maria (1902), Novarupta (1912), Pinatubo (1991) 7 > 100 km3 Ultra-Plinian Super-colossal > 20...
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    to visit the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta. List of volcanoes in the United States of America "Mount Martin". Bivouac...
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    an amphitheater on the southwest flank of the southwest peak. Volcano Novarupta formed on its slopes in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century...
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  • Wright brothers) dies of typhoid fever in Dayton, Ohio. June 6 – The Novarupta volcano (290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage) experiences a VEI...
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    Scientific Assembly 2023: 883. Hildreth, Wes; Fierstein, Judy (2012). The Novarupta-Katmai Eruption of 1912—Largest Eruption of the Twentieth Century: Centennial...
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    Ring of Fire 1902 34 6 no anomaly 070017,000–13,000 1912 eruption of Novarupta United States, Alaska Ring of Fire 1912 32 6 −0.4 000022 1980 eruption...
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    Ma, Yellowstone 0.64 Ma. 19th century eruptions: Tambora 1815, Krakatoa 1883. 20th century eruptions: Novarupta 1912, St. Helens 1980, Pinatubo 1991....
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  • 2007-08-03. "Colima". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. "Novarupta". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. "Lolobau". Global...
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    of rock, breccia and ash. Examples of lava dome eruptions include the Novarupta dome, and successive lava domes of Mount St Helens. When a dome forms...
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    Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an ash flow formed by the 1912 eruption of Novarupta, and the stratovolcano Mount Katmai. Over 2,000 grizzly bears come here...
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    researcher on volcanoes in Alaska, where she is noted as an expert on Novarupta. Much of her research has been conducted with fellow geologist Wes Hildreth...
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    600 Santa María Volcano  Guatemala 1902 34 6 no anomaly 7,000–13,000 Novarupta  United States 1912 32 6 −0.4 2 Mount St. Helens  United States 1980 24...
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    Unknown 2010 Nea Kameni Greece South Aegean Volcanic Arc Dacite 1950 Novarupta lava dome United States Aleutian Arc Rhyolite 1912 Nevados de Chillán...
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    estimated 20,000,000 tonnes (22,000,000 short tons) of SO 2 were emitted Novarupta, Alaska Peninsula; 1912, June 6; VEI 6; 13 to 15 km3 (3.1 to 3.6 cu mi)...
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    second-largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska. Complicating the eruption was the arrival of Typhoon Yunya...
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