Fisher Caldera
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/ False Pass
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mountain, caldera
Named for the USGS geologist Bernard Fisher. Largest of 12 Holocene calderas in Alaska. Formed in a compositionally zoned eruption circa 7,120 B.C which deposited material as a thick pyroclastic fall and overlying ignimbrite known as Fisher tephra.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera
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Coordinates: 54°39'55"N 164°22'53"W
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