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  <dc:contributor>Richard B. Moore</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Robert G. McGimsey</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Andrew T. Calvert</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2005</dc:date>
  <dc:description>High-precision 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of selected lavas from Westdahl Volcano places time constraints on several key prehistoric eruptive phases of this large active volcano. A dike cutting old pyroclastic-flow and associated lahar deposits from a precursor volcano yields an age of 1,654+/-11 k.y., dating this precursor volcano as older than early Pleistocene. A total of 11 geographically distributed lavas with ages ranging from 47+/-14 to 127+/-2 k.y. date construction of the Westdahl volcanic center. Lava flows cut by an apparent caldera-rim structure yielded ages of 81+/-5 and 121+/-8 k.y., placing a maximum date of 81 ka on caldera formation. Late Pleistocene and Holocene lavas fill the caldera, but most of them are obscured by the large summit icecap.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.3133/pp1709D</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Argon geochronology of late Pleistocene to Holocene Westdahl volcano, Unimak Island, Alaska</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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