A mountain, 1,917.8 m (6,288 ft) high, of eastern New Hampshire. It is the highest elevation in the White Mountains.
Mount Washington
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A mountain, 1,917.8 m (6,288 ft) high, of eastern New Hampshire. It is the highest elevation in the White Mountains.
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| Elevation | 7,794 feet (2,376 m) [1] |
| Location | Deschutes / Linn counties, Oregon, USA |
| Range | Cascade Range |
| Prominence | 2,554 feet (778 m)[2] |
| Coordinates | 44°19′55.7″N 121°50′18.7″W / 44.332139°N 121.838528°WCoordinates: 44°19′55.7″N 121°50′18.7″W / 44.332139°N 121.838528°W [3] |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Washington |
| Type | Shield volcano [4] |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Cascade Volcanic Arc |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Last eruption | About 670 AD |
| First ascent | 1923 by E. McNeal and party [5] |
Mount Washington is a shield volcano in the Cascade Range of Oregon. The mountain dates to the Late Pleistocene. However, it does have a line of basaltic andesite spatter cones on its northeast flank which are approximately 1,330 years old according to carbon dating. The main peak is a volcanic plug that was heavily eroded by glaciers in the last ice age.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Northwest GeoData Clearinghouse". Department of Geology: Portland State University. http://nwdata.geol.pdx.edu/OR-GIS/PlaceNames/W.html. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- ^ "Mount Washington, Oregon". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2411. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- ^ "Mount Washington". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=QD1736. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- ^ a b Wood, Charles A.; Jűrgen Kienle (1993). Volcanoes of North America. Cambridge University Press. pp. 181–182. ISBN 0-512-43811-X.
- ^ "Mount Washington". Skiing the Cascade Volcanoes. http://www.skimountaineer.com/CascadeSki/CascadeSki.php?name=Washington. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
External links
- "Mount Washington". Geographic Names Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1151927. Retrieved 2008-11-18.
- "Mount Washington Volcano, Oregon". U.S. Geological Survey. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Mt_Washington/description_mt_washington.html. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
- "Washington, Oregon". Volcano World. http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/north_america/wash_ore.html. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
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