Chaos Crags in the foreground and Lassen Peak in the background are large lava dome complexes in the southern Cascade Range. Chaos Crags consists of a group of six overlapping rhyodacite lava domes that erupted around 1,100 years ago. Lassen last erupted during 1914-17.

Photo by Dan Dzurisin, 1982 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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Galleries: Lava Domes

Keywords: lava dome

Lassen Volcanic Center