Comparison Between Mount Bona And Mount Churchill

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Mount Bona and Mount Churchill is one of the greatest mountains in Alaska. Also it is the fifth highest independent peak in the United States. The eruption occurred around 800 AD in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Alaska, U.S. This two volcanoes is more than 15,000 feet high, and permanently covered with ice and snow. Also 1250 years ago, Mount Churchill erupted which blew the lid off the mountain, and carried the ash into the southwest Yukon. It called White River Ash, and it covers almost 600,000 square kilometers in Alaska, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. If you was closer to the volcano you will be dead because the ash can be 60cm thick. This is very dangerous. Do you know that Mount Bona named by Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi in 1897. …show more content…

Many people climbed on this two mountains but the first three people was Allen Carpe, Terris Moore, and Andrew Taylor. When this two volcanoes erupted it spreaded the ash from Canada to Germany. Moreover, Mount Churchill or Mount Bona is a composite volcano and composite volcanoes have a second volcano on the side. So there are two volcanoes on one mountain. This means that this two volcanoes consume the same magma. It does not tell how many lives were lost. The damage that this two volcanoes did is not so much because it happened so long ago that scientist cannot find. Mount Churchill’s eruption was the biggest or largest eruptions in North America in the past 2,000

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