An assistant geology professor at Central Washington University was recently awarded half a million dollars to fund her four-year research project on Cascade Range volcanoes.

The Cascade Mountains are relatively young in geological terms, with their formation primarily occurring over the past 40 million years, though the high volcanic peaks have formed within the last ...

Living among the volcanic peaks of the Cascade Mountains is a part of the reality of life in the Pacific Northwest. But what we don’t often consider — and what many of us don’t really know ...

Climbing mountains in Colorado ... From there, a new world of mountaineering opportunity opens up. The Cascade Volcanoes are ...

summarizes his team's findings about how water contributes to explosive volcanoes in Cascade Range. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

The majority of the NSF grant funding will go toward keeping both graduate and undergraduate students involved in the project ...

Currently, the Lassen Volcanic Center is the end of the Cascade Range. So, as the triple junction crawls towards ... The eruptions that formed Glass Mountain, named because of the glassy (obsidian) ...

The Cascade Mountains of the US Pacific Northwest sit in a climate zone with massive amounts of rain and rapid weathering, so the oceanic treanch has been completely overrun and buried by the forearc ...

Moon rise at sunset over the Three Sisters mountains—part of the Cascade volcanoes—at Scott Lake, ... [+] Oregon. The granite clump was found using microwave-wavelength readings from antennae ...

Lassen Volcanic National Park is situated at the crossroads of two volcanic mountain ranges (Cascade Range and the Basin and Range Province), creating an incredibly diverse volcanic landscape for ...

From the coastal rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula to the inland volcanoes of Mt. Rainier to the Cascade Mountains—Seattle is the ideal launching pad for outdoor pursuits. But you don’t ...

Kaylor said lower elevations in the Shasta Cascade region like Lassen Volcanic National Park ... will also continue ...