Marble Mountain-Trout Creek Hill

Marble Mountain-Trout Creek Hill

West Crater with associated lava flows
Elevation 150 to 1,378 meters (492 to 4,521 ft)[1]
Location
Location Skamania County, Washington, USA
Range Cascade Range[2]
Topo map USGS Bare Mountain
Geology
Type Volcanic field[3]
Age of rock less than 700,000 years[1]
Volcanic arc/belt Cascade Volcanic Arc[2]
Last eruption ~7,700 years BP[1]

Marble Mountain-Trout Creek Hill volcanic field (MMTC) is a volcanic field located in Washington, USA.

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Notable Vents

Name Elevation Coordinates Last eruption
Bare Mountain[1] - - -
Marble Mountain[1] 1,258 m or 4,127 ft - -
Trout Creek Hill[3] 893 m or 2,930 ft ~340,000 years ago
West Crater[1][3] 1,329 m or 4,360 ft 5750 BC?

Trout Creek Hill

Trout Creek Hill is a small Pleistocene basaltic shield volcano in Washington, United States. It produced a lava flow about 340,000 years ago that traveled 20 km (12 mi) southeast, which dammed the Columbia River for a short period of time.[3]

West Crater

West Crater is a small andesitic lava dome with associated lava flows in southern Washington.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wood, Charles A.; Jűrgen Kienle (1993). Volcanoes of North America. Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN 0-512-43811-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=eyDRib-FJh4C&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=Marble+Mountain-Trout+Creek+Hill&source=web&ots=O9vDUvQEir&sig=GYJKlbv5jk0CNrSCKVzBBgpAi4Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result. 
  2. ^ a b "West Crater | Photo". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1201-06-&volpage=photos&photo=107020. Retrieved 2009-01-15. 
  3. ^ a b c d e "West Crater". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1201-06-. Retrieved 2007-05-13.