Unalaska is part of a 1,100-mile volcanic arc known as the Aleutian Islands, which stretch from the Alaska Peninsula across the Bering Sea. The region forms part of the Pacific Ring of Fire ...

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Part of the Aleutian Islands, a 1,100-mile volcanic archipelago that curves in a westward arc to within 600 miles of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, Unalaska features one of the harshest ...

Subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate creating the Aleutian trench and volcanic island arc (Credit: Alaska Volcano Observatory). Click image for a larger view.

As relations between the US and Russia come under increased international focus, we explore a windswept, geologically tumultuous island whose history has been shaped by both nations. Situated ...

Some of our on-going research projects include: The petrogenesis of island arc magmas (with special emphasis on the Aleutian arc). The quantitative petrography of volcanic rocks. The evolution of ...

The Discovery+ doc explores Alaska's rugged Aleutian Island chain with filmmaker Ian Shive and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife research team. “It was a trip of a lifetime,” says the Los Angeles-based ...