Brushy Butte

Brushy Butte
Highest point
Elevation 3,852 ft (1,174 m)[1]
Coordinates 41°10′41″N 121°26′35″W / 41.178°N 121.443°W / 41.178; -121.443Coordinates: 41°10′41″N 121°26′35″W / 41.178°N 121.443°W / 41.178; -121.443[1]
Geography
Location Shasta County, California, U.S.
Parent range Cascade Range
Geology
Age of rock Pleistocene
Mountain type Shield volcano[1]
Volcanic arc Cascade Volcanic Arc
Last eruption Pleistocene

Brushy Butte is a small, poorly studied,[2] shield volcano located immediately east of Timbered Crater, south-southeast of the Medicine Lake Highlands in northern California, U.S. (near where Siskiyou County, California is adjacent to Shasta County, California).

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Brushy Butte". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  2. Harpel, Christopher J.; John W. Ewert (2000-10-05). "Bibliography of literature from 1990-1997 pertaining to Holocene and fumarolic Pleistocene volcanoes of Alaska, Canada, and the conterminous United States". Open-File Report 00-017, version 1.0. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2008-08-14.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.