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From Miller and others (1998): "Ukinrek Maars are a pair of phreatomagmatic explosion vents that formed on a low (less than 100 m high), 4-km-long, ridge in the Bering Sea Lowland 1.5 km south of Becharof Lake and 12 km northwest of Peulik Volcano. West Maar, elliptical in shape and up to 170 m in diameter and 35 m deep, formed on the northwest end of the ridge (Kienle and others, 1980). East Maar lies 600 m east of West Maar at a lower elevation. It is circular, up to 300 m in diameter and 70 m deep, and has a 49-m-high central lava dome that is now partly covered by a crater lake. Location of the maars apparently coincides with, and may be controlled by, the intersection of the Bruin Bay fault and regional structures (Kienle and others, 1980; Detterman and others, 1983)."
Map showing volcanoes of Alaska.
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- Siebert L, Simkin T (2002-). Volcanoes of the World: an Illustrated Catalog of Holocene Volcanoes and their Eruptions. Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program Digital Information Series, GVP-3, (http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/).
- Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs
- Miller, T. P., McGimsey, R. G., Richter, D. H., Riehle, J. R., Nye, C. J., Yount, M. E., and Dumoulin, J. A., 1998, Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 98-0582, 104 p. http://www.avo.alaska.edu/downloads/catalog.php
- Kienle, Juergen, Kyle, P. R., Self, Stephen, Motyka, R. J., and Lorenz, Volker, 1980, Ukinrek Maars, Alaska: I, April 1977 eruption sequence, petrology and tectonic setting: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-37.
- Detterman, R. L., Case, J. E., Wilson, F. H., Yount, M. E., and Allaway, W. H. Jr., 1983, Generalized geologic map of the Ugashik, Bristol Bay, and part of the Karluk quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF 1539-A, unpaged, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000.
- Alaska Volcano Observatory
