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What state is Wrangell St Elias National Park?
Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve/State
Designated as a national park in 1980, Wrangell-St. Elias sprawls across 13.2 million acres in the Southcentral region of Alaska. The park borders Canada’s Kluane National Park and together their 20 million acres represent one of the largest wilderness areas left in the world.
Where is Mt St Elias located?
Mount Saint Elias, second highest peak (18,008 feet [5,489 metres]) of the St. Elias Mountains, on the Canada–United States (Alaska) border, 70 miles (110 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. The mountain rises north of Malaspina Glacier.
When was Mount Wrangell last active?
| Mount Wrangell | |
|---|---|
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Mountain type | Shield volcano |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Wrangell Volcanic Field |
| Last eruption | August 2002 |
What type of volcano Mount Wrangell?
andesitic shield volcano
Wrangell, an andesitic shield volcano with a summit caldera 6 km long, 4 km wide, and 1 km deep.
Where is the shield of Mount Wrangell located?
Mount Wrangell. Mount Wrangell, in Ahtna K’ełt’aeni or K’ełedi when erupting, is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States. The shield rises over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) above the Copper River to its southwest.
Where is the Mount Wrangell volcano in Alaska?
Mount Wrangell, in Ahtna K’ełt’aeni or K’ełedi when erupting, is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States.
How did the Wrangell Mountains get their name?
The Wrangell Mountains are almost entirely volcanic in origin, and they include the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Blackburn and Mount Sanford. The range takes its name from Mount Wrangell, which is one of the largest andesite shield volcanoes in the world, and also the only presently active volcano in the range.
How big is the volume of Mount Wrangell?
From Miller and others (1998) : “Mount Wrangell is a large andesitic shield volcano with a volume of about 900 cubic kilometers (Nye, 1983).