USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington
Mount Rainier, Washington
- Announcements
- Current Activity
- Background and Information
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DESCRIPTION: Mount Rainier Volcano
-- Geographic Setting, Geologic and Eruptive History
-- including
Mount Rainier ...
Mount Rainier National Park ...
Camp Muir ...
Carbon Glacier ...
Cowlitz Glacier ...
Earthquakes ...
Electron Mudflow ...
Emmons Glacier ...
Eruptive History ...
Glaciers ...
Historical Information ...
Historical Mudflows ...
Hydrology ...
Hyrdrothermal Activity ...
Ingraham Glacier ...
Kautz Glacier ...
Indian Henry's Hunting Ground ...
Longmire Springs ...
McClure Rock ...
Monitoring ...
Nisqually Glacier ...
Osceola Mudflow ...
Paradise Lahar ...
Peter Rainier ...
Puyallup Glacier ...
River Drainages ...
Russell Glacier ...
Round Pass Mudflow ...
Seismicity ...
South Tahoma Glacier ...
"Tahoma" ...
Tolmie Peak ...
Van Trump ...
Volcano Monitoring ...
Wapowety Cleaver ...
Willis Wall ...
Wilson Glacier ...
Winthrop Glacier ...
etc.
- Current Hazards Report
- Special Items of Interest
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Mount Rainier
-- Excerpt from: Swanson, et.al., 1989
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Proposed Monitoring Sites, 2007
-- information, maps, and images
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Summary of Notable Events at Mount Rainier
-- modified from Scott, et.al., 1995, Tables 1, 2, and 3
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History and Hazards of Mount Rainier, Washington
-- Sisson, 1995
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Mount Rainier - Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk
-- Driedger and Scott, 2002
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Living with a Volcano in your Backyard -- An Educator's Guide with Emphasis on Mount Rainier
-- Driedger, Doherty, and Dixon, (Project Coordinators), 2005, USGS and NPS, General Interest Publication 19
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Visit A Volcano - Mount Rainier National Park
-- points of interest, maps, links, etc.
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Volcanoes of Lewis and Clark
-- includes sightings of Mount Rainier
- Maps, Graphics, and Images
- Publications and Reports
- Items of Interest
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Active and Potentially Active Volcanoes in Washington State
-- Excerpt from: Wright and Pierson, 1992, USGS Circular 1073, includes Mount Rainier
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Annotated NASA Image -
Mount Rainier, Washington, September 1994
-- [Image,80K,InlineJPG]
-- NASA photo, courtesy NASA Earth From Space,
modified with text by USGS/CVO
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Annotated NASA Images - Menu
-- includes Mount Rainier and other Washington State Volcanoes
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Archives - Current Activity Information and Archives
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Areas inundated by mudflows from Mount Rainier in the last 5,600 years - Map
-- [Map,23K,InlineGIF]
-- Modified from: Sisson, 1995
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Carbon River
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Cascade Range Current Activity Updates
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Cascades Eruptions During the Past 4,000 Years - Graphic
-- [Graphic,110K,InlineGIF]
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Cowlitz River
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Current Activity Menu - Mount Rainier
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Current Seismicity - Link
-- Link courtesy University of Washington Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
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Debris Flows, Mudflows, and Lahars - Menu
-- Mount Rainier's Historical and Modern Debris Flows Menu
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Decade Volcanoes - Menu
-- The aim of the Decade Volcanoes project is to direct attention to a
small number of selected, active volcanoes world-wide and to encourage the
establishment of a range of research and public-awareness activities aimed at
enhancing an understanding of the volcanoes and the hazards posed by them ...
includes Mount Rainier
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Deformation Project - CVO Project Menu
-- general information about the Volcano Deformation Project and the monitoring
of the Cascade Volcanoes, including Mount Rainier
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Dry Tilt Network at Mount Rainier, Washington
-- Dzurisin, Johnson, and Symonds, 1983, USGS Open-File Report 83-277
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Earthquakes and Seismicity - Menu
-- Mount Rainier Earthquakes and Seismicity, includes
historical, plots, charts, links
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Electron and other Historical Mudflows - Menu
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Eruptive History - Menu
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Eruptive History
-- Excerpt from: Swanson, et.al., 1989, AGU Field Trip Guidebook T106
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Eruptive History - Summary of Notable Events at Mount Rainier
-- modified from Scott, et.al., 1995, Tables 1, 2, and 3
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Geographic Setting - Description
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Geologic Map of Washington State
-- [Map,82K,InlineGIF]
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The Geologic Story of Mount Rainier
-- Crandell, 1969
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Geology of Interactions of Volcanoes, Snow, and Water - CVO Project Menu
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Geology of Mount Rainier National Park
-- Fiske, et.al., 1963
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Glacial Outburst Floods - Glaciers Menu
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Glaciers and Glaciations - Menu
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Glaciers and Glaciations, Glacier Hazards, Glacial Outburst Floods - Mount Rainier - Descriptions
-- including
Glaciations ...
Glaciers ...
Glacial Outburst Floods ...
Jökulhlaups ...
Kautz Creek 1947 ...
Nisqually River ...
Tahoma Creek ...
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Glaciers and Glacier Features
-- Excerpt from: Driedger, 1986, includes Mount Rainier references
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Glacier Hazards and Glacial Outburst Floods - Description
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Glaciers of Mount Rainier
-- Driedger, 1992, USGS Open-File Report 92-474
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Glaciers of Mount Rainier - Map
-- [Map,27K,InlineGIF]
-- Modified from: Drieger, 1992, USGS Open-File Report 92-474
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Glacier-Generated Debris Flows at Mount Rainier
-- Walder and Driedger, 1993, USGS Open-File Report 93-124
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Hazards - Menu
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Hazards Map and Report
-- Current 1998
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Hazards Map [270K,PDF]
-- Hazards zones for lahars, lava flows, and pyroclastic flows from
Mount Rainier
-- PDF Format
-- From: Scott, et.al., 1998, USGS Fact Sheet 065-97, based on
Hoblitt, et.al., 1998, USGS Open-File Report 98-428
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Hazards "Posters"
-- Four "Poster-Style" Maps to download covering the hazards of
Mount Rainier;
"Osceola and Electron Mudflows";
"Lava and Pyroclastic Flow Hazards";
"Lahar Hazards";
"Ashfall Hazards"
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Hazards Report and Map
-- Current 1998
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Historical Debris Flows and Mudflows - Menu
-- including Osceola and Electron Mudflows
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Historical Information
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History and Hazards of Mount Rainier, Washington
-- Sisson, 1995
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History of Landslides and Debris Flows at Mount Rainier
-- Scott and Vallance, 1993
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Holocene Tephras from Mount Rainier - Graphic
-- From: Swanson, et.al., 1989, AGU Field Trip Guidebook T106
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Hydrology - Menu
-- Mount Rainier's Hydrology and Hydrologic Processes Menu
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Hydrothermal Areas - Description
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Ice Volumes on Cascade Volcanoes; Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Three Sisters, and Mount Shasta
-- Driedger and Kennard, 1986, PP 1365
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Kautz Creek
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Lahars and Mudflows - Menu
-- Mount Rainier lahars and mudflows, including the Osceoal and Electron, also
includes modern-day lahars
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Lahar Warning System
-- Puyallup Valley
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Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk
-- Driedger and Scott, 2002
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Living with a Volcano in your Backyard -- An Educator's Guide with Emphasis on Mount Rainier
-- Driedger, Doherty, and Dixon, (Project Coordinators), 2005, USGS and NPS, General Interest Publication 19
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Living With A Volcano In Your Backyard -
Volcanic Hazards at Mount Rainier
-- Walder and Driedger, 1995
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Living with Perilous Beauty
-- Scott, Wolfe, and Driedger, 1998
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Maps and Graphics - Mount Rainier
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Measurements of slope distances and vertical angles at Mount Baker and
Mount Rainier, Washington, Mount Hood and Crater Lake, Oregon, and Mount Shasta
and Lassen Peak, California, 1980-1984
-- Chadwick, et.al., 1985, USGS Open-File Report 85-205
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Monitoring - Menu
-- Volcano and Hydrologic Monitoring of Mount Rainier
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Monitoring - Proposed Monitoring Sites, 2007
-- information, maps, and images
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Mount Rainier
-- Excerpt from: Swanson, et.al., 1989, AGU Field Trip Guidebook T106
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Mount Rainier - Description
-- Geographic Setting, Geologic and Eruptive History
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Mount Rainier - Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk
-- Driedger and Scott, 2002
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Mount Rainier - Living with Perilous Beauty
-- Scott, Wolfe, and Driedger, 1998, USGS Fact Sheet 065-97
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Mount Rainier - Visit A Volcano
-- information, maps, driving information, tourism, links, etc.
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Mount Rainier Educational Outreach - Menu
-- Educational Ideas
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Mount Rainier National Park - Visit A Volcano
-- information, maps, driving information, tourism, links, etc.
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Mount Rainier Vicinity with Select Place Names - Map
-- [Map,29K,InlineGIF]
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Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System
-- Puyallup Lahar Warning System
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Mount Rainier and Mauna Loa: Profile of shield volcano versus composite volcano -
Graphic
-- [Graphic,10K,GIF]
-- Modified from: Tilling, Heliker, and Wright, 1987
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Mowich River
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Nisqually Glacier
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Nisqually Glacier - Analysis of a 24-Year Photographic Record of Nisqually Glacier,
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
-- Veatch, 1969, USGS Professional Paper 631
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Nisqually Glacier -- The Nisqually Glacier, Mount Rainier, Washington, 1857-1979
-- Heliker, et.al., 1984, USGS Open-File Report 83-541
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Nisqually River
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Notable Events at Mount Rainier - Summary
-- modified from Scott, et.al., 1995, Tables 1, 2, and 3
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Osceola and other Historical Mudflows - Menu
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Outreach - Mount Rainier - Menu
-- educational ideas
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN)
-- University of Washington Geophysics Program's
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), includes maps and links
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) - Mount Rainier Vicinity - Map
-- [Map,13K,InlineGIF]
-- Modified from:
University of Washington Geophysics Program, 1997
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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) -
Oregon and Southern Washington - Map
-- [Map,30K,InlineGIF]
-- includes Mount Rainier
-- Modified from:
University of Washington Geophysics Program, 1999
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Peter Rainier
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CVO Photo Archives - Mount Rainier
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Postglacial Lahars from Mount Rainier Volcano, Washington
-- Crandell, 1971
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Proposed Monitoring Sites, 2007
-- information, maps, and images
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Publications and Reports - Mount Rainier
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Pumice and other pyroclastic deposits in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
-- Mullineaux, D.R., 1974, USGS Bulletin 1326
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Puyallup Lahar Warning System
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Puyallup River
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Rainier (Peter Rainier)
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River Drainages - Menu
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Rockfalls and avalanches from Little Tahoma Peak on Mount Rainier,
Washington
-- Crandell and Fahnestock, 1965, USGS Bulletin 1221-A
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Seismic Monitoring at Cascade Volcanic Centers, 2004 -- Status and Recommendations
-- Moran, 2005, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5211
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Seismicity - Menu
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Source, age, and description of some postglacial pyroclastic deposits
in Mount Rainier National Park
-- Modified from: Crandell, 1971, USGS Professional Paper 677
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Summary of Notable Events at Mount Rainier
-- modified from Scott, et.al., 1995, Tables 1, 2, and 3
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Tahoma Creek
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Thermal Areas - Description
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Videos
-- Mount Rainier videos available through the
Northwest Interpretive Association
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Visit A Volcano - Mount Rainier National Park
-- information, maps, driving information, tourism, links, etc.
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Volcano Deformation Project - CVO Project Menu
-- general information about the Volcano Deformation Project, including
monitoring of Washington State Volcanoes
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Volcano Names
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Volcanoes of Lewis and Clark
-- includes sightings of Mount Rainier
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White River
- Useful Links
- Other Menus of Interest
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CVO Educational Outreach Menu
-- CVO Menu -- Educational Ideas,
Information, Teacher's Aids, "Fun Stuff",
Videos and Posters, USGS Educational Links, etc.
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Living With Volcanoes
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Facts and Information; Questions and Answers; Historical,
Cultural, and the Economic Sides of Volcanoes; Tourism and Recreation
Information, "Real-Time" World-Wide Volcano-Cams;
and Information About "Dantes Peak"
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07/29/08, Lyn Topinka