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Volcanoes of the Cascades:
The Cascades include around
two dozen active or possibly active
stratovolcanoes, and a few extinct
ones as well. Here is a selection of
some that I've captured.
Mt.
Shasta and Mt. St. Helens are
featured on separate pages |
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| Mt. Rainier,
at (14,411 ft), the tallest volcano
in the Cascades Range |
Aerial view
of Mt. Rainer on approach to SeaTac
Airport |
Aerial view
of Mt. Rainer on approach to SeaTac
Airport |
Aerial view
of Mt. Rainier from a northbound
plane |
An
admittedly strange deep twilight
shot of Mt. Rainier, looking
southeast |
Another deep
twilight shot of Mt. Rainier |
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| Mt. Rainier
from above |
Aerial shot
of Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens from
the west |
Aerial shot
of Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens from
the west |
Aerial shot
of Mt. Adams from the west |
Mt. Adams,
12,277 feet, Washington |
Mt. St.
Helens from the Johnston Ridge
Observatory |
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| Mt.
St. Helens (8,363 feet) from the
east. |
Mt. St.
Helens from the east |
Aerial view
of Mt. St. Helens from the west |
Mt. Hood,
11,240 feet, from the southeast |
Mt. Hood and
downstream lahar deposits (volcanic
mudflow) |
Mt. Hood,
11,240 feet, from the southeast |
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| Mt. Hood,
11,240 feet, Oregon |
Mt. Hood,
Oregon |
Aerial view
of Columbia River and Mt. Hood in
northern Oregon |
Aerial view
of Mt. Hood from the west |
Aerial view
of Mt. Hood from the west |
Mt.
Washington (7,795 feet) in Oregon,
and Belknap Crater, a shield (6,873
feet) |
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| Mt.
Jefferson, 10,495 feet, Oregon |
Mt.
Jefferson in Oregon |
Two of the
Three Sisters from Paulina Lake on
the Newberry Volcano |
The Three
Sisters (highest at 10,358 feet) in
Oregon |
Southern
part of Three Sisters, Oregon |
The Three
Sisters in Oregon |
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| Aerial of a
missing stratovolcano, Crater Lake
from the west |
Black and
white of Crater Lake from the west |
Aerial of a
missing stratovolcano, Crater Lake
from the west |
Mt.
McLoughlin, 9,495 feet, and Fourmile
Lake in southern Oregon |
Mt.
McLoughlin in southern Oregon |
Mt.
McLoughlin in southern Oregon |
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| Mt.
McLoughlin and Union Peak from the
rim of Crater Lake |
Mt. Shasta
and Shastina from the north.
There
is an entire page for Shasta here. |
A
stratovolcano from the inside out:
Mt. Mazama collapsed to form Crater
Lake (photo by Susan) |
Stratovolcano
from the inside out: Mt. Mazama
collapsed to form Crater Lake (photo
by Susan) |
Brokeoff Mtn,
a portion of ancient Mt. Tehama. It
is an eroded stratovolcano near
Lassen Peak |
Brokeoff Mtn,
a portion of ancient Mt. Tehama near
Lassen Peak |
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| Zoom on
Brokeoff Mtn, a portion of ancient
Mt. Tehama |
Brokeoff Mtn,
a portion of ancient Mt. Tehama,
from the Bumpass Hell trail |
Brokeoff
Mtn, a portion of ancient Mt. Tehama |
Brokeoff Mtn,
a portion of ancient Mt. Tehama from
Bumpass Hell trail |
Brokeoff Mtn,
part of the Tehama stratovolcano,
from the Lassen Peak trail |
Brokeoff Mtn,
part of the Tehama stratovolcano,
from the Lassen Peak trail |
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Other Stratovolcanoes from
all over: I haven't
explored the whole world yet, but
I've been a few other places with
composite cones. Here is a
small collection... |
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| Ruapahu, a
stratovolcano on the North Island of
New Zealand (9,175 feet) |
Ruapahu,
showing on the left why we call
these stratovolcanoes |
Ruapahu
from the west. It has a central
crater area that reminds me of St.
Helens |
Zooming in
on Ruapahu's crater |
San
Francisco Peaks, a stratovolcano
complex south of Grand Canyon near
Flagstaff, AZ |
San
Francisco Peaks, AZ, showing
eastward facing central crater
(similar in appearance to Mt. St.
Helens) |
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| San
Francisco Peaks from the north.
Humphrey's Peak (12,637 ft.) is the
highest point in Arizona |
San
Francisco Peaks are in the center of
a large volcanic field containing
600 or more cones |
San
Francisco Peaks from the south rim
of Grand Canyon, at Desert View |
San
Francisco Peaks from the south rim
of Grand Canyon, at Desert View |
San
Francisco Peaks from the north rim
of the Grand Canyon |
Dawn view of
San Francisco Peaks from North Rim
of Grand Canyon |
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| Vesuvius
near Naples, Italy. This is the
volcano that devastated Pompei |
Vesuvius,
the only active volcano on the
European continent, is way too close
to Naples |
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Ercolano, built on the remains of
Herculaneum, which was also
destroyed in the eruption of
Vesuvius in 79AD |
Vesuvius
literally looms over Ercolano and
Naples, Italy |
The town of
Pompei was buried in ash of Vesuvius
in 79 AD |
The town of
Pompei was buried in ash of Vesuvius
in 79 AD |
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| A road winds
to within a short distances to the
summit of Vesuvius and a trail
reaches the rim |
Somma is an
earlier eroded volcanic crater seen
here from the Vesuvius trail |
The day I
was there was horrifically smoggy,
but Naples is viewed here from the
summit crater. Way too close... |
There is a
huge summit crater on Vesuvius (and
a curio shop!) |
Wall of
summit crater on Vesuvius |
Somma from
the Vesuvius trail |
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