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Prindle Volcano is an isolated basaltic cinder cone located in eastern Alaska, United States, in the headwaters of the East Fork of the Fortymile River. The cone is fresh-looking and has a base approximately 900 meters wide. It is the northwesternmost expression of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. The cinder cone, and an approximately 11 km-long lava flow which breached the margin of the cone, erupted in the Pleistocene approximately 176,000 years ago. Rocks forming the Prindle Volcano occur within, and penetrated through, the Yukon-Tanana upland which is a large region of mostly Paleozoic-Mesozoic metamorphosed and deformed sedimentary, volcanic, and intrusive rocks that are intruded by younger Cretaceous and Tertiary granitic rocks. Xenoliths contained in the volcano's ejecta provide a sample of lower crust material

References

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prindle Volcano

See also

• List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes
• List of volcanoes in the United States

63°42′54″N 141°37′44″W / 63.71500°N 141.62889°W / 63.71500; -141.62889

1. Blondes et al 2007
2. http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcinfo.php?volcname=Prindle%20Volcano
3. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6J-4PFDDY3-2&_user=10&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1205837951&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8ff649358baf16465a9989e9feaa4ae3

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