Frosty Peak Volcano

Frosty Peak Volcano, also known as Mt. Frosty, Frosty Volcano, or Cold Bay Volcano, is a 6,299 ft (1,920 m) stratovolcano at the southwest end of the Alaska Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska.^[1][2]

Map showing volcanoes of Alaska. The mark is set at the location of Cold Bay Volcano.

Frosty Peak Volcano
Frosty Peak Volcano, a stratovolcano at the southwest end of the Alaska Peninsula
Highest point
Elevation	6,299 ft (1,920 m)
Prominence	6,772 ft (2,064 m)
Listing	Mountain peaks of Alaska
Coordinates	55°04′02″N 162°50′07″W
Geography
Location	Alaska Peninsula, Alaska, U.S.
Parent range	Aleutian Range
Topo map	USGS McCarthy B-2
Geology
Mountain type	Stratovolcano
Volcanic arc	Aleutian Arc
Last eruption	Unknown - Pleistocene or later

History

Frosty Peak is the tallest and most recently formed peak of the volcanic complex.^[3] Its exact age is unknown, but it was probably formed in the middle to late Pleistocene, and possibly erupted even more recently. Frosty Peak is the southern cone of the double-coned Frosty Volcano, which formed in the middle Pleistocene some time before the Wisconsin Glaciation.^[4]

Frosty Volcano itself is located on the northern flank of an even older volcano, the Morzhovoi Volcano.^[5] Morzhovoi Volcano was probably formed in the early to middle Pleistocene, and collapsed into a caldera. The highest points that remain from the caldera are called North and South Walrus Peak.^[6]

Frosty Peak

See also

• List of volcanoes in the United States of America
• List of Stratovolcanoes

References

1. "Frosty - Introduction". www.avo.alaska.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
2. "Frosty Peak | Volcano World | Oregon State University". volcano.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
3. "Frosty". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
4. Waldron, Harold (1961). "USGS Bulletin 1028-T - Geologic Reconnaissance of Frosty Peak Volcano and Vicinity, Alaska" (PDF).
5. "Morzhovoi - Introduction". www.avo.alaska.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
6. Geological Survey Bulletin. U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey; Washington, D.C. 1961.

External links

• Siebert L, Simkin T (2002–present). 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).
• Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected Photographs
• Alaska Volcano Observatory Archived 2012-11-20 at the Wayback Machine