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Sunlight Peak is one of several eroded stratovolcanoes in the volcanic arc of the Absaroka Range. Sunlight Peak's original stratovolcanic edifice has weathered away over time, leaving it as an ancient, extinct volcano. Along with the other older Absaroka volcanoes, Sunlight Peak last erupted around 43 million years ago. [5]
The Absaroka Range is a sub-range of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. The range stretches about 150 mi (240 km) across the Montana – Wyoming border, and 75 mi (120 km) at its widest, forming the eastern boundary of Yellowstone National Park along Paradise Valley , and the western side of the Bighorn Basin .
Located six miles from the lake's eastern shores, the remote mountain in Wyoming's Absaroka Range peaks at 11,372 feet, making it the highest point in Yellowstone National Park.
The wilderness spans the Montana-Wyoming border on Gallatin, Custer and Shoshone National Forests and is composed of 944,000 acres (3,820 km 2). [5] The elevation ranges from 0 to 11,000 feet (3,400 m); the maximum elevation is at the Beartooth Plateau, located high in the Beartooth Mountains.
“The western part of the Yellowstone caldera is waning,” said Ninfa Bennington, a volcano geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and lead author on a paper in Wednesday’s edition of ...
The video shows Mount Dukono, an active volcano in Indonesia, in August, not Yellowstone National Park. ... Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Monthly Update. U.S. Geological Survey, accessed Dec. 18
Eagle Peak is a mountain in the Absaroka Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming and at 11,372 feet (3,466 m) is the highest point in Yellowstone National Park. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is located about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the southeast arm of Yellowstone Lake .
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