Images

The photo shows several silica-rich lava domes in the Coso Volcanic Field, the closest of which erupted onto the desert floor around 80,000 years ago. USGS photo by Seth Burgess.

Flow banding of Panum pumice and obsidian of the same composition.

A mud pot releases a burst of gas in the Davis-Schrimpf Seep Field near the Salton Sea. The geothermal area here is related to the same faulting and volcanic system which created the Salton Buttes lava domes. USGS photo by Deb Bergfeld, 2016.

Drew Downs in Iceland with a glacier in hte background.

Main hydrothermal features of the new (2016) 3-D model of the subsurface at Long Valley Caldera. This schematic is based on a survey of the electrical properties of the earth (magnetotellurics) below. Arrows show subsurface water flow, with colors keyed to changing water temperature, from blue (cold) to red (hot). Purple arrows show an extinct hot water pathway.

The photo was taken from a vantage looking up Avalanche Gulch at Red Banks (a line of cliffs along the ridge central to the photograph).

The USGS Bay Area offices are located in Building 19 at Moffett Field, part of the NASA Ames Research Center

This is a simplified diagram of regional range front faults as they intersect the Long Valley Caldera.

Geologic field-trip guide to Lassen Volcanic National Park and vicinity, California

CalVO's Stuart Wilkinson skis out to a remote seismic instrument in the Long Valley volcanic region to perform routine maintenance.

Cliffs of Franciscan Complex rocks near the Point Bonita Lighthouse reveal metamorphosed pillow lava at their bases. USGS photo by Jessica L. Ball

In this view down from the Point Bonita lighthouse, a sea arch made up of slightly metamorphosed pillow basalts rises from the surf. The green tinge on some of the "pillows" is the result of metamorphism, replacing primary minerals with greener ones such as chlorite and epidote. USGS photo by Jessica L. Ball

C1 and C3 are granitic crystal-melt mush (partially crystallized magma) columns that fed the most recent Mono Craters eruptions. The connection from C1 to South Coulée (SC) is older and colder than the connection from C3 to North Coulée (NC) and Panum Crater (PC), which carries hydrothermal fluid to the surface.

View from entrance of Valentine Cave toward interior shows the raised lines of high-lava marks on wall on wall of central pillar. USGS photo by J. Donnelly-Nolan.

Wes spent much of his 48 years with the USGS working in the Long Valley Caldera. USGS photo by Emily Montgomery-Brown.

Plot of earthquakes in Mount Shasta region greater than M1.0 from April 3, 2010 to April 3, 2015.

Mount Shasta, California simplified hazards map showing potential impact area for ground-based hazards during a volcanic event.

Lidar images of Shastina cone, west flank of Mount Shasta, California. Details of lava flows and other surficial features are best seen in the image to the right with vegetation removed.

Titanium tubed used to collect gas from a fumarole near Lassen Peak, California.

Volcanic-gas "sniffer" installed at Mammoth Mountain, California measures temperature plus carbon dioxide and other gas concentration from a steaming vent.

Catastrophic landslide near Oso, Washington, March 22, 2014.