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Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fantastic lava beds
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Lava
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Southern Oregon basin
Publication:

Williams, Howel, 1932, Geology of the Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 21, no. 8, p. 195-385, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:48,000)


Summary:

Geologic map. Named on geologic map. Age is Cenozoic.
Mapped in Lassen Co., northeastern part of Lassen Volcanic National Park, northern CA.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1320).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Fantastic Lava Beds
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Andesite
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Southern Oregon basin
Publication:

Clynne, M.A., and Muffler, L.J.P., 2010, Geologic map of Lassen Volcanic National Park and vicinity, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map, 2899, 3 sheets, 110 p., scale 1:50,000, (incl. CD-ROM)


Summary:

Pg. 8-9, 21, 106 (pamphlet). Fantastic Lava Beds. Consists of 2 block-lava flows of sparsely porphyritic augite-olivine basaltic andesite erupted from south base of Cinder Cone. Age is Holocene, 1666 C.E. (Common Era) based on tree-ring dendrochronology (citing Sheppard and others, 2009, Dendrochronologia, v. 27, p. 213-221).
Notable exposures in Prospect Peak 7.5-min quadrangle, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lassen Co., northern CA.

Source: Publication.


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