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Army) requested the Geological Survey to undertake a program of volcano investigations in the Aleutian Islands-Alaska Peninsula area. The first field studies, under general direction of G. D. Robinson, were begun as soon as weather permitted in the spring of 1946. The results of the fh t year’s fiel...

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Main Authors: R. Coats, Thomas B. Nolan
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Summary:Army) requested the Geological Survey to undertake a program of volcano investigations in the Aleutian Islands-Alaska Peninsula area. The first field studies, under general direction of G. D. Robinson, were begun as soon as weather permitted in the spring of 1946. The results of the fh t year’s field, laboratory, and library work were as-sembled as two administrative reports. Part of the data was published in 1950 in Geological Survey Bulletin 974-B, Volcanic activity in the Aleutian arc, by Robert R. Coats. The remainder of the data has been revised for publication in Bulletin 1028. The geologic and geophysical investigations covered by this report were reconnaissance. The factual information presented is believed to be accurate, but many of the tentative interpretations and conclu-sions will be modified as the investigations continue and knowledge grows. The investigations of 1946 were supported almost entirely by the