Mount Kaguyak

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Mount Kaguyak is a stratovolcano located in the northeastern part of the Katmai National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The Script error: No such module "convert". wide caldera is filled by a more than 180 m deep crater lake. The surface of the crater lake lies about 550 m below the rim of the caldera. Postcaldera lava domes form a prominent peninsula in the center of the lake. The volcano is Script error: No such module "convert". high and is topographically prominent because it rises from lowland areas near sea level in the south of the Big River.

Based on radiocarbon dating the caldera-forming eruption occurred about 5800 years before present.[1] During this eruption at least Script error: No such module "convert". were covered in a dacitic ignimbrite.[1]

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Map showing volcanoes of Alaska. The mark is set at the location of Mount Kaguyak

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