nearly 300 volcanic islands make up the Aleutian chain. The native Unangax̂ (Aleuts) inhabited the area for millennia before Russian colonization and the introduction of Christianity in the 18th ...

Subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate creating the Aleutian trench and volcanic island arc (Credit: Alaska Volcano Observatory). Click image for a larger view.

Some of our on-going research projects include: The petrogenesis of island arc magmas (with special emphasis on the Aleutian arc). The quantitative petrography of volcanic rocks. The evolution of ...

in the Andreanof Islands in the Aleutian Island archipelago in Alaska. The epicentre was located 54 kilometres (34 miles) south of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska, and 130 kilometres (80 miles) west of the ...

Set in the Northern Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands—"Land of the Aleuts"—form an archipelago of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to The USA and Russia.

The quakes on Sunday did not appear related to recent seismic activity at a volcano near Anchorage that last erupted in 1992. Much of Alaska including the Aleutian Islands is on the Ring of Fire ...