Mount Gordon
Mount Gordon | |
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Mount Gordon | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,755 m (9,039 ft) |
Prominence | 625 m (2,051 ft) |
Listing | List of volcanoes in the United States of America |
Coordinates | 62°08′N 143°48′W / 62.13°N 143.8°WCoordinates: 62°08′N 143°48′W / 62.13°N 143.8°W |
Geography | |
Location | Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States |
Parent range | Wrangell Mountains |
Geology | |
Age of rock | Holocene |
Mountain type | Cinder cone |
Last eruption | 2013 |
Mount Gordon is a cinder cone in the Wrangell Mountains of eastern Alaska, United States, located between Nabesna Glacier and the stratovolcano Mount Drum.[1] It is the most prominent of a group of Pleistocene and Holocene cinder cones, most of which are less than 100 m (328 ft) high. The exact age of Mount Gordon remains unknown.
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