Alaska

 

Project overview

In June 2004 we initiated gas surveys at Shrub Mud Volcano in the Wrangell Mts. AK and in the vicinity around Gas Rocks, on the south shore of Becharof Lake on the Alaskan peninsula. The Shrub field site had recently collapsed into a single pool so our flux measurements were mostly confined to sites around the circumference of the pool.

Publications
Hogeweg, N., Keith, T.E.C., Colvard, E.M., and Ingebritsen, S.E., 2005, Ongoing hydrothermal heat loss from the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, Alaska: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 143, 279-291, 2005. abstract

Sorey, M. L., Evans, W. C., McGimsey, R. G., and Werner, C., 2001, Magmatic carbon and helium discharge from Shrub mud volcano, Copper River basin, southeastern Alaska, USA, in Cidu, R., ed.: Water-Rock Interaction-10, Cagliari, 2001, p. 919-922.

links
The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO)

USGS Central Region Mineral Resources Team study on Regional Fluid Flow and Basin Modeling in Northern Alaska

 

Contact: Bill Evans, Deb Bergfeld