Iliamna

Iliamna is a prominent glacier-covered stratovolcano in Lake Clark National Park on the western side of Cook Inlet, about 225 km SW of Anchorage. Its flat-topped summit is flanked on the south, along a 5-km-long ridge, by the North and South Twin Peaks lava dome complexes. The Johnson Glacier dome complex lies on the NE flank.

Steep headwalls on the S and E flanks expose an inaccessible cross-section of the volcano. Major glaciers radiate from the summit, and valleys below the summit contain debris avalanche and lahar deposits. Only a few major Holocene explosive eruptions have occurred from the deeply dissected volcano, which lacks a distinct crater.

Most of the reported eruptions may represent plumes from vigorous fumaroles E and SE of the summit, which are often mistaken for eruption columns (Miller et al. , 1998). Eruptions producing pyroclastic flows have been dated to 1778-1779 and 1876 CE.

Elevated seismicity accompanying dike emplacement beneath the volcano was recorded in 1996.