Mount Baker - Wikipedia
Mount Baker (Nooksack: Kweq' Smánit; Lushootseed: təqʷubəʔ), [9] also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active [10] glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano [4] in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North …
Mount Baker | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
Snow and ice-covered Mount Baker, located in northern Washington, is the highest peak in the North Cascades (3,286 m or 10,781 ft) and the northernmost volcano in the conterminous United States.
Geology and History Summary for Mount Baker
2023年11月8日 · Mount Baker is the youngest volcano of a larger, multivent, volcanic field that has remained recurrently active for the past 1.3 million years. It is located in Washington State about 50 km (31 mi) east of Bellingham Bay and 25 km …
Eruption History of Mount Baker | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
2023年11月5日 · The eruptive history of the Mount Baker volcanic field is virtually continuous from 1.3 million years ago to the present, and it includes at least 25 discrete eruptive vents and >100 intruded dikes.
Baker - Global Volcanism Program
Mount Baker, the northernmost of Washington's volcanoes, is a glacier-clad andesitic stratovolcano constructed above the E flank of the eroded mid-Pleistocene Black Buttes volcano and SW of the early Pleistocene 4.5 x 8 km rhyodacitic Kulshan caldera.
Baker | Volcano World | Oregon State University
2010年5月18日 · Mt. Baker is an isolated stratovolcano in northern Washington. It is the northernmost of the Cascade volcanoes in the United States. Most of the summit of the volcano is covered by glaciers.
Mount Baker - Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
Mount Baker is an ice-clad volcano in the North Cascades, located about 50 kilometers E of Bellingham, WA. After Mount Rainier, it is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade volcanoes. Deposits which record the last 14,000 years at Mount Baker indicate that it has not had highly explosive eruptions like those of Mount St. Helens or Glacier ...
Mount Baker—Living with an Active Volcano | USGS Fact Sheet …
Volcanic activity in the Mount Baker area began more than one million years ago, but many of the earliest lava and tephra deposits have been removed by glacial erosion. The pale-colored rocks northeast of the modern volcano mark the site of ancient Kulshan Caldera that collapsed after an enormous ash eruption one million years ago.
Mount Baker Volcanology | Facts | Northwest Alpine Guides
Mount Baker (Lummi: Qwú’mə Kwəlshéːn; Nooksack: Kw’eq Smaenit or Kwelshán), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States.
Hazards Summary for Mount Baker | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
2023年11月8日 · Mount Baker, Washington simplified hazards map showing potential impact area for ground-based hazards during a volcanic event. (Credit: Faust, Lisa. Public domain.) The next eruption of Mount Baker may produce lava flows, pyroclastic flows, …