5 天之前 · Like a just-awakened giant with a rumbling stomach, Mount Iliamna is demanding attention. Frequent earthquakes have rattled within the snowy dome of the 10,000-foot volcano in the past few weeks, making scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory take a closer look at the mountain, which sits about 75 miles across Cook Inlet from the town of ...

2009年10月30日 · In Alaska, at the head of Cook Inlet, it swings a sharp curve to the southwest and becomes Alaska's mountain axis. This sharp curve, for all the world like a monstrous granite hinge connecting the northwesterly and southwesterly limbs of the System, is the gigantic Alaska Range, which is higher and broader than the Sierra Nevada, and of greater ...

2025年1月6日 · They found that high elevation erosion rates are generally slower than 50 mm per thousand years, while lower elevation erosion rates in the valley bottoms range between 140 and 900 mm/1,000 years. This roughly order-of-magnitude difference in erosion rates explains the great relief of Mount McKinley. ... Alaska, and the tallest mountain in ...

2020年12月7日 · A mysterious, previously undiscovered supervolcano may be lurking beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. A new study suggests a wide crater, created when the supervolcano exploded, connects at least...

2023年11月3日 · In 2020, Carnegie Science volcanologist Diana Roman and her colleagues revealed that the Islands of Four Mountains in Alaska may be the location of a giant 166,000-year-old volcano.

Denali is the highest mountain peak of the State of Alaska, the United States of America, and all of North America. Mount Saint Elias on the boundary between Alaska and the Yukon is the second highest peak of both the United States and Canada. Mount Foraker is the third highest major mountain peak of Alaska.

2023年5月8日 · DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — Aerial and limited ground searches were underway Monday in Alaska for two overdue mountain climbers whose last known tracks disappeared at the site of an avalanche, officials said.

2023年5月9日 · Aerial and limited ground searches were underway Monday in Alaska for two overdue mountain climbers whose last known tracks disappeared at the site of an avalanche, officials said.

2025年1月20日 · We found several patches of the ghost forest on the Outer Coast. Through cross-dating, the ghost forest provided a precise timeline of the most recent glacial advance during the Little Ice Age. Cross-dating matches the ring-width patterns of living trees, whose ages are known, with the ring-width patterns of dead trees of unknown age.

2025年1月17日 · In his 1897 New York Sun article, titled “Discoveries in Alaska,” Dickey estimates the height of the recently discovered mountain at 20,000 feet. He dubbed the peak “Mount McKinley” soon ...