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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03195

These hills below the north flank of Mount Shasta are hummocks resulting from the massive Shasta Valley debris avalanche deposit, which formed during a major volcanic flank collapse event in the Pleistocene. Individual hummocks, composed of remnants of the ancestral Shasta volcano, are up to 200 m high and some are more than 1 km long. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1981 (Smithsonian Institution).

These hills below the north flank of Mount Shasta are hummocks resulting from the massive Shasta Valley debris avalanche deposit, which formed during a major volcanic flank collapse event in the Pleistocene. Individual hummocks, composed of remnants of the ancestral Shasta volcano, are up to 200 m high and some are more than 1 km long.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1981 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Keywords: debris avalanche deposit | deposit


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