Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03026

Mount Jefferson has been inactive since the late Pleistocene and shows the effect of extensive erosion by glaciers. The Jefferson Park Glacier on the N flank in the foreground and the Whitewater Glacier on the E flank are the two largest on Jefferson. Photo by Dan Miller, 1977 (U.S. Geological Survey).

Mount Jefferson has been inactive since the late Pleistocene and shows the effect of extensive erosion by glaciers. The Jefferson Park Glacier on the N flank in the foreground and the Whitewater Glacier on the E flank are the two largest on Jefferson.

Photo by Dan Miller, 1977 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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