Novarupta
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Novarupta is a volcano located on the Alaska Peninsula on a slope of Trident Volcano in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 290 miles southwest of Anchorage. Novarupta was formed in 1912, during
Novarupta's lava dome in June 2011
The 1912 eruption resulted in Mount Katmai losing a cubic mile of its summit. This photo shows Mount Katmai in 1913.
Colorful ash in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is a valley within Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska which is filled with ash flow from the eruption of Novarupta on June 6–8, 1912. Following the eruption,
Novarupta
…the Native villages experiencing the heaviest ash falls were abandoned and the inhabitants relocated. Pyroclastic flows from the eruption formed the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, named by botanist Robert F. Griggs, who explored the volcano's aftermath for the National Geographic Society in 1916. The eruption that formed the…
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, July 2014
Knife Creek Gorge
River eroding volcanic ash flow, Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
Canyon cut in ash by River Lethe