Mount Mazama

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Mount Mazama is an ancient stratovolcano in southern Oregon whose massive eruption about 7,700 years ago created the caldera now filled by Crater Lake.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pleistocene volcano
stratovolcano
subduction-zone volcano
ashFallDistribution Prairie ecozone
surface form: Canadian Prairies

Greenland ice cores
western North America
calderaDepth about 1,200 meters
calderaDiameter about 8 to 10 kilometers
composition andesitic
dacitic
country United States of America
surface form: United States
createdFeature ash fall deposits
caldera
ignimbrite sheets
pyroclastic deposits
culturalSignificance sacred landscape to Klamath tribes
currentTopography caldera rim
elevationBeforeCollapse about 12,000 feet
about 3,600 meters
eruptionAge Holocene
about 7,700 years ago
eruptionFormed Crater Lake
eruptionImpact regional climate and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest
eruptionType Plinian eruption
caldera-forming eruption
geologicalSetting Cascadia Subduction Zone
surface form: Cascadia subduction zone
hasCaldera Crater Lake
surface form: Crater Lake caldera
hasLakeInCaldera Crater Lake
hasSignificance major Holocene explosive eruption in North America
source of Mazama ash tephra layer
lastMajorEruption about 5,700 BCE
locatedIn Cascade Range
Klamath County, Oregon
Oregon
Oregon
surface form: U.S. state of Oregon

southern Oregon
locatedInProtectedArea Crater Lake National Park
namedAfter Mazamas mountaineering club
nowContains Crater Lake
partOf Cascade Volcanic Arc
High Cascades
protectedArea Crater Lake National Park
status extinct volcano
studiedBy United States Geological Survey
tephraName Mazama ash
volcanicExplosivityIndex 7
volcanoType composite volcano

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Subject: Mount Mazama
Description of subject: Mount Mazama is an ancient stratovolcano in southern Oregon whose massive eruption about 7,700 years ago created the caldera now filled by Crater Lake.

Referenced by (11)

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

Crater Lake formedInCalderaOf Mount Mazama
Crater Lake locatedOn Mount Mazama
this entity surface form: Mount Mazama caldera floor
Crater Lake National Park hasPart Mount Mazama
this entity surface form: Mount Mazama caldera
Mount Scott hasViewOf Mount Mazama
this entity surface form: Mount Mazama caldera
Mount Scott isEastOf Mount Mazama
Pumice Desert formedByEruptionOf Mount Mazama
Pumice Desert associatedVolcano Mount Mazama
Mazama Glacier namedAfter Mount Mazama
this entity surface form: Mount Mazama (namesake association within Cascade volcanic arc)
Witches Cauldron containedIn Mount Mazama
this entity surface form: Caldera of Mount Mazama
Witches Cauldron parentVolcano Mount Mazama