#cascade range

PNW Cascade Range (but fantasy)

Forest (No. 53)

At long last, a new video from me! This one is a short video about Larch Mountain, an extinct shield volcano in the Cascade Range of Oregon, USA, but NOT one of the Cascade Volcanoes. What? Guess you'll just have to watch and find out!

Mount Rainier is a type of volcano called a stratovolcano. Over the past half million years, Mount Rainier has erupted again and again, alternating between quiet lava-producing eruptions and explosive debris-producing eruptions. The eruptions built up layer after layer of lava and loose rubble, eventually forming the tall cone that characterizes stratovolcanoes. The most recent eruption cycle ended about 1,000 years ago, but Mount Rainier is still considered an active volcano.

Mount Rainier is one of several volcanoes along the Cascade Range. Learn more about volcanoes across the National Park Service at https://go.nps.gov/NPSVolcanoes

Mount Rainier is an active volcano with the potential for future eruptions, but eruptions do not happen without warning. The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) carefully monitors Mount Rainier and other Cascade Range volcanoes. Follow the link for Current Alerts for U.S. Volcanos and click the "CVO" tab for Cascade Range volcano updates: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcano-updates#cvo