Devils Desk, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska

Location: 58.5N, 154.3W
Elevation: 6,409 feet (1,954 m)


Devils Desk is a volcanic neck of a former stratovolcano. It is uncertain if Devils Desk has erupted in the past 10,000 years. Photo by Jay Robinson, National Park Service.

Sources of Information:

Keller, A.S., and Reiser, H.N., 1959, Geology of the Mount Katmai area, Alaska: U.S. Geological Bulletin 1058-G, p. 261-298.

Kienle, J., Swanson, S.E., and Pulpan, H., 1983, Magmatism and subduction in the eastern Aleutian arc: in Shimozuru, D., and Yokoyama, I., (eds.), Arc Volcanism: Physics and Tectonics, D. Reidel, Boston, p. 191-224.

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.

Wood, C.A., and Kienle, J., 1993, Volcanoes of North America: Cambridge University Press, New York, 354 p.



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