Images

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

Map showing one-year probability of accumulation of 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) or more of tephra from eruptions of volcanoes in the Cascade Range.

Geologists examine tephra deposits to better understand the early eruptive behavior of the Medicine Lake Volcano, evidence of which can be found as far away as central Oregon.

Aerial view of a lava tube trace (dark sinuous shape) along the ground surface at Medicine Lake Volcano, California.

A tumulus at Captain Jack's stronghold within Lava Beds National Monument .

Eruptions in the Cascade Range during the past 4000 years. USGS GIP 64

Medicine Lake lies within the shallow basin of Medicine Lake caldera. Glass Mountain flow, draped over the east side of the volcano, is the youngest lava flow at the volcano. The northeasternmost dacite tongue extends nearly to the bottom of the photo (distal lobes are outlined to enhance visibility).

Glass Mountain obsidian flow at Medicine Lake volcano, California. Glass Mountain is a spectacular, nearly treeless, steep-sided rhyolite and dacite obsidian flow that erupted just outside the eastern caldera rim and flowed down the steep eastern flank of Medicine Lake volcano.

Photograph looking south across the rugged andesitic northern end of the compositionally zoned Callahan Flow toward the main vent at Cinder Butte (partly covered by snow.) USGS photograph by Tanya Blacic