The Aleutian Ridge is located in the western part of the Aleutian Arc in the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...

Geography

It consists of a chain of volcanic islands located along the crest of a submarine ridge with most of the active Quaternary stratocones or

caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is ...

-like volcanoes located on the northern boundaries of the Aleutian Islands.

Gallery

Photos by the U.S. Air Force in May 1944

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References

Underwater ridges of the Bering Sea Geology of the Aleutian Islands Volcanoes of the Aleutian Islands Volcanism of Alaska Quaternary volcanism Quaternary Asia Quaternary North America {{marine-geo-stub