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Images related to Mount Baker.
Note the protruding logs and branches from living trees that were knocked down and carried by the lahar. Ice axe, 3 ft, shows scale. Lahars are the greatest hazard at Mount Baker.
Note the protruding logs and branches from living trees that were knocked down and carried by the lahar. Ice axe, 3 ft, shows scale. Lahars are the greatest hazard at Mount Baker.
Potential volcanic hazards at Mount Baker.
Potential volcanic hazards at Mount Baker.
Timeline for eruptions at Mount Baker during the Holocene (12,000 years ago to present).
Timeline for eruptions at Mount Baker during the Holocene (12,000 years ago to present).
Mount Baker's crater lake in 1976 formed due to glacial and snow melt as a result of increased heat from magma beneath the surface. Fumarole on left ejecting gas at a velocity of 268 kph (167 mph).
Mount Baker's crater lake in 1976 formed due to glacial and snow melt as a result of increased heat from magma beneath the surface. Fumarole on left ejecting gas at a velocity of 268 kph (167 mph).
Boulder Creek leading from Mount Baker, Washington is a hydrology monitoring site where water is collected and measured for chemicals that may signal volcanic unrest.
Boulder Creek leading from Mount Baker, Washington is a hydrology monitoring site where water is collected and measured for chemicals that may signal volcanic unrest.
No date exists for this photograph, but the image is likely circa 1900. Note the postcard copyright date of 1903.
No date exists for this photograph, but the image is likely circa 1900. Note the postcard copyright date of 1903.
Geothermal ice cave at Mount Baker's summit formed by melting of a glacier due to increased heat from subsurface magma and fumarole on the surface expelling hot gasses.
Geothermal ice cave at Mount Baker's summit formed by melting of a glacier due to increased heat from subsurface magma and fumarole on the surface expelling hot gasses.