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Cowhorn Mountain volcano

Shield(s) 2336 m / 7664 ft
Oregon, United States, 43.4°N / -122.05°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
Cowhorn Mountain volcano books
Typical eruption style: unspecified
Cowhorn Mountain volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene) No recent earthquakes
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Background:

The glacially modified Cowhorn and Sawtooth Mountain shield volcanoes and adjacent cinder cones lie SW of Crescent Lake. A lava from Sawtooth Mountain, located SW of Cowhorn Mountain was K-Ar dated at 0.56 and 0.52 million years (Sherrod, in Wood and Kienle, 1990).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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