Mount Gordon

Mount Gordon
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°W / 62.13; -143.8Coordinates: 62°08′N 143°48′W / 62.13°N 143.8°W / 62.13; -143.8 
Geography
Location Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska, United States
Parent range Wrangell Mountains
Geology
Age of rock Holocene
Mountain type Cinder cone

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Gordon". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.


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