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Mount Baker

Baker

Type
Stratovolcano
Elevation
3285m
Last eruption
1880
Mount Baker
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk) · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
United States
Region
North America / Garibaldi Volcanic Arc
Elevation
3285m
Coordinates
48.777, -121.813
Last eruption
1880
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Andesite / Basaltic andesite

Geological summary

Mount Baker is a glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano constructed above the E flank of the eroded mid-Pleistocene Black Buttes volcano and SW of the early Pleistocene 4.5 x 8 km rhyodacitic Kulshan caldera.

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From Wikipedia

Mount Baker, also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781-foot (3,286 m) active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens. About 30 miles (48 km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current volcanic cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80–90,000 years. Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation.

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Eruption history

20 recordedGlossary

Record summary

Confirmed eruptions
11
Uncertain eruptions
9
Span of confirmed record
7850 BCE – 1880
Largest confirmed eruption
VEI 3 (1843, the most recent of 2)
Confirmed eruptions since 1900
0
Summary (VEI over time)
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7850 BCE~7526 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?4605 BCE~4281 BCE · 1 eruptions · max VEI 31560~1884 · 18 eruptions · max VEI 37850 BCE5579 BCE2983 BCE712 BCE1560

Detailed timeline

  1. 1884VEI ?Method not stated
    1884-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  2. 1880VEI 2Observed
    1880-09-07 – 1880-11-27
    Sherman Crater
  3. 1870VEI 2Observed
    1870-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  4. 1869VEI ?Method not stated
    1869-06-16 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  5. 1867VEI ?Method not stated
    1867-03-16 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  6. 1865VEI ?Method not stated
    1865-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  7. 1863VEI 2Observed
    1863-07-16 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  8. 1860VEI ?Method not stated
    1860-12-16 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  9. 1859VEI 2Observed
    1859-11-16 – 1860-04-26
    Sherman Crater
  10. 1858VEI 2Observed
    1858-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  11. 1856VEI ?Method not stated
    1856-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  12. 1854VEI 2Observed
    1854-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  13. 1852VEI 2Observed
    1852-12-01 – 1853-01-16
    Sherman Crater
  14. 1850VEI ?Method not stated
    1850-03-16 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  15. 1846VEI ?Method not stated
    1846-07-02 – end unknown
  16. 1843VEI 3Observed
    1843-07-02 – end unknown
    Sherman Crater
  17. 1820VEI 2Observed
    1820-07-02 – end unknown
  18. 1792VEI ?Method not stated
    1792-06 – end unknown
  19. 4550 BCEVEI 3Geological estimate
    4550 BCE – end unknown
    Sherman Crater?
  20. 7850 BCEVEI ?Geological estimate
    7850 BCE – end unknown
    South flank (Schreibers Meadow Cone)

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