This month we'll take a tour of the Cascade Range volcanoes, all located along the western edge of North America. Some will be very familiar but others are hidden gems (and dangers) of the Pacific Northwest.
This month we'll take a tour of the Cascade Range volcanoes, all located along the western edge of North America. Some will be very familiar but others are hidden gems of the Pacific Northwest.A view across the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest taken from the International Space Station in January 2015. Credit: NASA.accessible spans of active volcanism on Earth.
A map of the modern Cascade Range volcanoes labeled with their indigenous and Euroamerican names. Credit: Erik Klemetti., or "Mountains of the Northern People") volcanoes. I won't rehash my arguments here, but I will be talking about these volcanoes with both the native names and their Euroamerican names. You can see a map of the Cascades with both names above.Of any part of the Cascades, the volcanoes of British Columbia get the most forgotten.
We'll get into this more below, but Silverthrone Caldera is considered the 6th most dangerous volcano in Canada according toSalal Glacier Complex Mount Meager might be the first of the more well known Canadian Cascade volcanoes. There is aabout volcanism at Meager as far back as eruptions that happened ~2,360 years ago. That eruption is thought to have, meaning it was as large as the Mount St. Helens 1980 blast and the largest Holocene eruption in Canada.
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