Mount Mazama
USA /
Oregon /
Chiloquin /
World
/ USA
/ Oregon
/ Chiloquin
World / United States / Oregon
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Mount Mazama is a destroyed stratovolcano in the Oregon part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range. The volcano's collapsed caldera holds Crater Lake, and the entire mountain is located in Crater Lake National Park.
Mazama is most famous for a catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred around 5,677 (± 150) BC. The eruption, estimated to have been 42 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens' 1980 blast, reduced Mazama's approximate 11,000-foot (3,400 m) height by around half a mile (800 m) when much of the volcano fell into the volcano's partially emptied neck and magma chamber. At 8,159 feet (2,487 m), Hillman Peak is now the highest point on the rim.
Mazama is most famous for a catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred around 5,677 (± 150) BC. The eruption, estimated to have been 42 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens' 1980 blast, reduced Mazama's approximate 11,000-foot (3,400 m) height by around half a mile (800 m) when much of the volcano fell into the volcano's partially emptied neck and magma chamber. At 8,159 feet (2,487 m), Hillman Peak is now the highest point on the rim.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Mazama
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Coordinates: 42°55'32"N 122°5'22"W
- Newberry National Volcanic Monument 130 km
- Voltage Flow 302 km
- Saddle Butte Lava Field 323 km
- Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument 392 km
- Hell's Half Acre 780 km
- Henry's Fork Caldera 864 km
- Huckleberry Ridge Tuff Caldera 876 km
- Yellowstone Caldera 909 km
- Volcanic plateau 1871 km
- Atlin Volcanic Field 2036 km
- Crater Lake 2.3 km
- Dutton Ridge 4 km
- Crater Lake National Park 4.2 km
- Grouse Hill 8.6 km
- Pumice Desert 13 km
- Klamath Forest National Wildlife Refuge 32 km
- Soloman Butte 33 km
- The Peninsula 35 km
- Cave Mountain 42 km
- Agency Lake 44 km