An aerial view from the east shows Mount Griggs in the foreground with the distal end of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes (VTTS) ash-flow deposit in the distance, forming the flat, light-colored valley floor at the upper left. The VTTS ash flow was erupted in 1912 from Novarupta volcano; it traveled 21 km to the location shown in this photo. Griggs volcano is the highest of a group of volcanoes in the Katmai area. Three concentric craters are breached to the SW, the largest of which was formed by edifice collapse during the early Holocene.

Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1978.

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Griggs