Cascade Volcanoes

The movements of tectonic plates, these massive slabs of solid rock that move across the earth’s crust and crash together, move apart, and rub against each other forming most volcanoes. The tectonic collisions are a slow-moving event, as if set in slow motion, creating a long process that eventually resulting in the formation of volcanoes. The Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest is known for its deep evergreen forests and numerous tall jagged cones and this area is home to the Strato-Volcano Peak known today as Mount St. Helens. Originally named “Louwala-Clough,” or “Smoking Mountain,” by the Native American Indians in the region. Many legends were handed down explaining accounts about eruptions the Indians witnessed about Mount St. Helens. According to the lore of these Native American tribes, a huge landslide formed a natural bridge named Tamanawas that spanned the Columbia River. In the center of this arch lived a…

larger one. The houses are right outside of Keene Valley, a town of less than a thousand people, nestled in the heart of the High Peaks, the region so named because it is home to all of the tallest mountains in the park. The mountains are incredibly beautiful, the views from their tops exceedingly spectacular. They are just waiting to be climbed. Indeed, in the last decade hiking in the High Peaks has doubled, leading to issues with some of the more popular, accessible mountains being…

Snoqualmie Pass East According Wikipedia.org, located in state of Washington are the beautiful Cascade Mountains. Snoqualmie Pass is located in the at the center of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, and is a total area of 2.9 miles, with the Mountain's elevation of 3022'. The Washington State Transportation Department tells us that “Native Americans on both sides of the mountains carved foot trails across the Central Cascades, including Snoqualmie Pass,” The site continues to inform that the…

person see the relation of that location to another. Portland has many human and environmental characteristics. Portland is usually warm and dry in the summer, but has often has rainy winters (“Portland..”). This information can be used to explain the agricultural diversity of the region. Portland is hilly on the west side, but flat on the east (Gowdy and Marthens). Portland is in between two mountains, which is the Cascade Range and the Lower Coast Range. The city has a group of hills called…

Marys Peak - Fir Forests Lindsay Liddell FES 342 Professor Matthew Powers MWF 10-11am Due: 10/19/15 Marys Peak is a mountain in Benton County, Oregon. At the top of the peak, on a clear day, one can see the cities of the Willamette Valley, the Cascade Range, and the Pacific Ocean. It is known for its meadows of wildflowers in spring and its fir forests uniquely populated with noble firs (Abies procera). Little data is available regarding the trees age, but there is clear variance in age,…

Reference Ecosystem for Arimawhai Point, Great Mercury Island Introduction When a company, community, trust or private land owner plan on creating a reserve on a degraded landscape they must consider using a reference ecosystem when in the process of planning how to create the reserve. A reference ecosystem is another ecosystem that has the same features as the planned ecosystem this can include temperature, average amount of rainfall, soil type/geology, vegetation type. Reference ecosystems…

just please let me finish. Okay so as I was saying, we were assigning projects to groups today and my group consists of me, Chance, and Reginald. We choose the topic of “Sasquatch Searching” not thinking much about it and once we read the packet, we realized something. We have to go to North Cascades National Park for this project.” You can now see that Mrs. Blackwood, “All the way in Washington! There is no way I am letting you go!” Mrs. Blackwood screeches with authority. “Hold on Jaylene,…

different types of volcanoes and the types of volcanic hazards associated with each type of volcano. This information is important to me because now I understand the hazards associated with living in certain parts of the country that have volcanoes. I understand that the volcanoes found in Hawaii (Shield volcanoes) erupt differently and pose different dangers than the volcanoes in the Cascade Mountain Range (Composite volcanoes). Since I live in Portland, Oregon I was very interested in learning…

Volcanoes exist all around the world. They are the weakest spot on the Earth’s crust where hot lava comes to the surface. Volcanic eruption results from magma.The summit of magma sometimes they rise to the vent instead of the crater. Volcanos can also be by plate boundary. When lava comes to the surface ras rises to the crater. Mount St Helens is located in the U.S. in Washington. Mount St Helens is on the southwest of Washington. Mount St Helens is a dormant volcano. In its spectacular…

The great Crater Lake in Oregon was once a stratovolcano named Mount Mazama. Mount Mazama had a very catastrophic pyroclastic eruption that produce about 12 cubic miles of magma. The Mount Mazama volcano has been recorded as one of the largest volcano eruption that has taken place in the last 10,000 years. The Mount Mazama volcano was one of the major volcanoes at the Cascade Range. The range of Mount Mazama’s summit was roughly between 11,000 and 12,000 prior to its climatic eruption. The…