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Mount Bachelor, formerly named Bachelor Butte, is a dormant stratovolcano atop a shield volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range of central Oregon, United States. Named Mount Bachelor because it stands apart from the nearby Three Sisters , [ 4 ] it lies in the eastern segment of the central portion of the High Cascades, the ...
Mount Bachelor ski resort (stylized as Mt. Bachelor) is a ski resort located in Central Oregon, approximately 22 miles (35 km) west of Bend, along Century Drive Highway. The ski area is on the northern side of Mount Bachelor , a stratovolcano rising atop a volcanic shield in the Cascade Range .
It is a shield volcano that overlays a more ancient shield volcano named Little Brother. [43] North Sister is 5 mi (8 km) wide, [ 43 ] and its summit elevation is 10,090 ft (3,075 m). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Consisting primarily of basaltic andesite , it has a more mafic composition than the other two volcanoes. [ 44 ]
Tumalo Mountain is a shield volcano in the Cascade Range of central Oregon, located just northeast of Mount Bachelor across the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway. Climb, the views [ edit ]
Broken Top as seen from Mount Bachelor, with Mount Jefferson on the left and Mount Hood on the right. Broken Top is a complex stratovolcano . It lies northwest of Ball Butte and southeast of South Sister (part of the Three Sisters complex volcano), which is located at longitude 121.7° W and latitude 44.08° N.
Mount Bachelor; Newberry Volcano. Also has the characteristics of a shield volcano. Diamond Peak (Oregon) Usually referred to as a shield volcano. However, it has a stratocone. Cappy Mountain [4] Mount Mazama. Over 7,000 years ago, Mount Mazama erupted, causing its original edifice to be turned into a caldera instead. Mount Scott (Klamath ...
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Mount Multnomah is an invalidated hypothetical ancient volcano postulated in a 1925 publication by geologist Edwin T. Hodge. [1] It was proposed to exist in central Oregon at the present day location of the Three Sisters region.