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Mt. Shasta is a majestic, steep-sided stratovolcano located about 97 km (60 mi) north of Redding along the I-5 corridor in Northern California. It is the most voluminous of all the Cascade Range volcanoes, and the towns of Weed, Mt Shasta City, and McCloud lie in the shadow of its 4,317 m (14,163 ft) high snow- and ice-clad edifice. Summary.
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By Mount Shasta November 13, 2023. Overview. Publications....
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Mount Shasta is located in the Cascade Range in northern...
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Geology and History of Mount Shasta. Mount Shasta is located...
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Gigantic debris avalanche of Pleistocene age from ancestral...
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Catastrophic Debris Avalanche at Mount Shasta. The deposits...
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Mount Shasta (/ ˈ ʃ æ s t ə / SHASS-tə; Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; Karuk: Úytaahkoo) is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 ft (4,322 m), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state .
May 4, 2024 · Mount Shasta, peak (14,162 feet [4,317 metres]) of the Cascade Range in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, northern California, U.S. The peak lies 77 miles (124 km) north of the city of Redding. An impressive double-peaked dormant volcano, it dominates the landscape (a vast panorama of tumbled.
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Aug 20, 2019 · August 20, 2019. 4 min read. California’s Mount Shasta Loses a Historical Eruption. Clues from an old map erase a false 1786 event and are part of a global volcanic-record cleanup. By...
Mount Shasta in northern California, the largest volcano of the Cascade Range, is a complex stratovolcano composed of at least four overlapping volcanoes. From the SW, Shasta's prominent west flank lava dome, Shastina, appears at the left.
