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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03218

The hilly topography in the foreground is part of the massive debris avalanche deposit produced by collapse of Mount Shasta (center horizon). The roughly 46 km3, rapidly-moving debris avalanche swept some 50 km N. The hummocky area represents relatively intact segments of the volcano that were carried within a more fluidized, mixed bulk of the avalanche. Individual hummocks range up to a few hundred meters in height and roughly 1 km in length. Photo by Harry Glicken, 1982 (U.S. Geological Survey).

The hilly topography in the foreground is part of the massive debris avalanche deposit produced by collapse of Mount Shasta (center horizon). The roughly 46 km3, rapidly-moving debris avalanche swept some 50 km N. The hummocky area represents relatively intact segments of the volcano that were carried within a more fluidized, mixed bulk of the avalanche. Individual hummocks range up to a few hundred meters in height and roughly 1 km in length.

Photo by Harry Glicken, 1982 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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Keywords: debris avalanche deposit | deposit | hummock | stratovolcano


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