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Roundtop

Roundtop is a stratovolcano in North America Volcanic Regions, United States, rising to 1,871 m. Its most recent recorded eruption was in 7600 BCE.

About Roundtop

The flat-topped, glacier-covered Roundtop is the easternmost and lowest of an E-W-trending line of volcanoes on eastern Unimak Island, 13 km SW of the village of False Pass. The snow and ice-covered edifice fills much of a 3-km-wide caldera that formed during the early Holocene. The caldera-forming eruption produced pyroclastic flows and a rhyolitic tephra layer that is widespread throughout the southwestern end of the Alaska Peninsula. A group of lava domes was constructed south of the volcano. No historical eruptions are known, but in the 1930's warm springs were found on its slopes.

Eruption reports

Reports from GDACS and NASA EONET linked to this volcano.

No eruption reports in our records yet. New reports appear here automatically.

Earthquakes nearby, 30 days

Within about 50 km. Swarms of small quakes can sometimes accompany volcanic unrest.