Fort Rock–Christmas Lake Valley volcanic field

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The Fort Rock–Christmas Lake Valley volcanic field is a geologically young area in south-central Oregon characterized by numerous maars, tuff rings, and basaltic lava flows formed by explosive and effusive volcanic activity.

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Label Occurrences
Fort Rock–Christmas Lake Valley volcanic field canonical 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf monogenetic volcanic field ⓘ
volcanic field ⓘ
climate semi-arid ⓘ
contains Big Hole maar NERFINISHED ⓘ
Crack-in-the-Ground fissure NERFINISHED ⓘ
Devils Garden lava field NERFINISHED ⓘ
East Lava Field NERFINISHED ⓘ
Fort Rock maar NERFINISHED ⓘ
Four Craters Lava Field NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hole-in-the-Ground maar NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lost Forest Research Natural Area NERFINISHED ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
eruptionStyle effusive ⓘ
explosive ⓘ
formedBy Strombolian eruptions ⓘ
phreatomagmatic eruptions ⓘ
geologicalAge Holocene ⓘ
Pleistocene ⓘ
Quaternary ⓘ
hasHazardPotential low to moderate ⓘ
hasLandform lava shield ⓘ
lava tube ⓘ
tuff ring plateau ⓘ
lastEruption Holocene epoch NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn Lake County, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ
Oregon ⓘ
south-central Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ
monitoredBy USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory NERFINISHED ⓘ
United States Geological Survey NERFINISHED ⓘ
near Christmas Lake Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ
Fort Rock, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ
overlies Basin-fill sediments ⓘ
partOf Basin and Range Province ⓘ
High Lava Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo Brothers Fault Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ
Newberry Volcano NERFINISHED ⓘ
rockType basalt ⓘ
basaltic andesite ⓘ
surfaceExpression maars filled with sediment ⓘ
scoria cones ⓘ
tectonicSetting extensional regime ⓘ
intra-plate ⓘ
usedFor geologic research ⓘ
volcanology education ⓘ
volcanicFeature cinder cone ⓘ
lava flow ⓘ
maar ⓘ
spatter cone ⓘ
tuff ring ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Volcanoes of Oregon → hasNotableMember → Fort Rock–Christmas Lake Valley volcanic field ⓘ