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Axial Seamount is the youngest volcano and current eruptive center of the Cobb–Eickelberg Seamount chain, a chain of seamounts that terminates south of Alaska. [6] Axial lies where the chain intersects with the Juan de Fuca Ridge, [7] approximately 480 km (298 mi) west of Oregon.
The volcano has a pinnacle appearance resembling the spire-like shape of Mount Thielsen. [14] According to Harris (2005), the volcano resembles Cleopatra's Needle from certain angles and the Sugarloaf Mountain in Brazil from others. [5] The proximal relief for the volcano is 2,707 feet (825 m), while the draping relief is 3,363 feet (1,025 m).
Mount Hood, also known as Wy'east, is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range and is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc.It was formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific Coast and rests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
The Sand Mountain Field is part of the Cascade volcanic arc and is located at the western edge of the High Cascades segment [1] of the central Oregon Cascades, [2] near the upper McKenzie River watershed [1] in Oregon, in the United States. [3] It encompasses an area of 29 square miles (76 km 2) [4] and has a maximum elevation of 5,463 feet ...
In Eastern Oregon, several of the most notable eastern volcanoes are within the Basin and Range border. However, several extinct volcanoes in northeast Oregon and the border between the two regions are also there, including the Miocene Strawberry Mountain stratovolcano and the also Miocene Tower Mountain caldera .
Mount Mazama (Klamath: Tum-sum-ne [5]) is a complex volcano in the western U.S. state of Oregon, in a segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and Cascade Range.The volcano is in Klamath County, in the southern Cascades, 60 miles (97 km) north of the Oregon–California border.
The Boring Lava Field (also known as the Boring Volcanic Field) [3] is a Plio-Pleistocene volcanic field of cinder cones, small shield volcanoes, and lava flows in the northern Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon and adjacent southwest Washington.