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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03205

The foreground hills are part of the Shasta Valley debris avalanche deposit produced by one of the largest known Quaternary volcanic landslides. Roughly 46 km3 of an ancestral Mount Shasta collapsed about 350,000 year ago, producing a massive debris avalanche that swept some 50 km to the north, filling the broad Shasta Valley with hummocky debris. Photo by Dave Wieprecht, 1995 (U.S. Geological Survey).

The foreground hills are part of the Shasta Valley debris avalanche deposit produced by one of the largest known Quaternary volcanic landslides. Roughly 46 km3 of an ancestral Mount Shasta collapsed about 350,000 year ago, producing a massive debris avalanche that swept some 50 km to the north, filling the broad Shasta Valley with hummocky debris.

Photo by Dave Wieprecht, 1995 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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Galleries: Debris Avalanches / Landslides

Keywords: debris avalanche deposit | deposit | hummock | stratovolcano


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