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The Sand Mountain Volcanic Field (also known as the Sand Mountain Field) is a volcanic field in the upper McKenzie River watershed, located in the United States in Oregon. Part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, it lies southwest of Mount Jefferson and northwest of Belknap Crater and Mount Washington. Its highest elevation is 5,463 feet (1,665 m).
Sand Mountain (Alabama), a sandstone plateau in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama (and, to a far lesser extent, extreme northwest Georgia) Sand Mountain (Florida), a hill in Florida; Sand Mountain (Nevada), a singing sand dune in Nevada; Sand Mountain Volcanic Field, a volcanic field in Oregon; Sand Mountain (Chester County, Tennessee)
The massif also contains the highest mountain in Java, [3] Mount Semeru (3,676 meters (12,060 ft)), four lakes and 50 rivers. It is named after the Tenggerese people. The explosion of the volcano that created the caldera, happened ca. 45.000 years ago, in an event similar to the Krakatau eruption. [4] The Tengger Sand Sea has been protected ...
Deposits from Belknap buried older lava flows from the Sand Mountain Volcanic Field [44] as well as a series of four cinder cones located about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) to the southwest of Mount Washington. [42] There are also deposits from Belknap in the Lake Valley region between Belknap and both Sims Butte and Mount Mazama. [34]
Mount Bromo is located in the middle of a plain called "Sea of Sand" (Javanese: Segara Wedi or Indonesian: Lautan Pasir), a nature reserve that has been protected since 1919. A typical way to visit Mount Bromo is from the nearby mountain village of Cemoro Lawang. From there it is possible to walk to the volcano in about 45 minutes, but it is ...
Close to Santiam Pass, [2] it forms part of the United States Geological Survey topographic map for the Three Fingered Jack volcano. [1] Hayrick Butte lies south of Three Fingered Jack near Hoodoo Butte, Sand Mountain Field, Potato Butte, and Black Butte, with Belknap Crater and Mount Washington further to the south. [3]
The southern and eastern sides of the volcano drain into an upstream impoundment, the Swift Reservoir, which is directly south of the volcano's peak. Although Mount St. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington, access routes to the mountain run through Cowlitz County to the west, and Lewis County to the north.
Cross section of a sand volcano in County Clare, Ireland. A sand volcano or sand blow is a cone of sand formed by the ejection of sand onto a surface from a central point. The sand builds up as a cone with slopes at the sand's angle of repose. A crater is commonly seen at the summit.