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Publications

Selected USGS publications about Medicine Lake Volcano. 

Fact Sheets

Stovall, W. K., Marcaida, M. & Mangan, M. T. (2014). The California Volcano Observatory—Monitoring the State's Restless Volcanoes. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet , 2014-3120, 4 p.

 

Field Guides

Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Grove, T.L., (2017). Geologic field-trip guide to Medicine Lake Volcano, northern California, including Lava Beds National Monument. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report, 2017-5022-K1, 53 p. 

Fink, J. H. & Anderson, S. W. (2017). Emplacement of Holocene silicic lava flows and domes at Newberry, South Sister, and Medicine Lake volcanoes, California and Oregon. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2017-5022-I, 41 p. 

 

Geologic Maps

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. (2010). Geologic map of Medicine Lake Volcano, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map, 2927, 48 p.

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. & Champion, D. E. (1987). Geologic map of Lava Beds National Monument, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map , 1804

 

Hazards Assessments and Reports

Mangan, M. T., Ball, J., Wood, N. J., Jones, J. L., Peters, J., Abdollahian, N., Dinitz, L., Blankenheim, S., Fenton, J. & Pridmore, C. (2018). California's Exposure to Volcanic Hazards. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2018-5159, 49 p.

White, M. N., Ramsey, D. W. & Miller, C. D. (2011). Database for potential hazards from future volcanic eruptions in California. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series , 661

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M., Nathenson, M., Champion, D. E., Ramsey, D. W., Lowenstern, J. B. & Ewert, J. W. (2007). Volcano hazards assessment for Medicine Lake Volcano, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2007-5174-A, 26 p.

Nathenson, M., Donnelly-Nolan, J. M., Champion, D. E. & Lowenstern, J. B. (2007). Chronology of postglacial eruptive activity and calculation of eruption probabilities for Medicine Lake Volcano, Northern California.U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2007-5174-B, 10 p.

 

Journal Articles

Poland, M.P., Lisowski, M. Dzurisin, D., Kramer, R., McLay, M., Pauk, B. (2017). Volcano geodesy in the Cascade arc, USA. Bulletin of Volcanology, 79, 1-33. 

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M., Grove, T. L., Lanphere, M. A., Champion, D. E. & Ramsey, D. W. (2008). Eruptive history and tectonic setting of Medicine Lake Volcano, a large rear-arc volcano in the southern Cascades. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 177, 313-328. 

Poland, M.P., Burgmann, R., Dzurisin, D., Lisowski, M., Masterlark, T., Owen, S., Fink, J. (2006). Constraints on the mechanism of long-term, steady subsidence at Medicine Lake volcano, northern California, from GPS, leveling, and InSAR. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 150, 55-78.

Dzurisin, D., Poland, M. P. & Burgmann, R. (2002). Steady subsidence of Medicine Lake volcano, northern California, revealed by repeated leveling surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 16 p.

Lowenstern, J.B., Persing, H.M., Wooden, J.L., Lanphere, M., Donnelly-Nolan, J., Grove, T.L. (2000). U-Th dating of single zircons from young granitoid xenoliths: New tools for understanding volcanic processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183, 291-302.

Kinzler, R.J., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Grove, T.L. (2000). Late Holocene hydrous mafic magmatism at the Paint Pot Crater and Callahan flows, Medicine Lake Volcano, N. California and the influence of H2O in the generation of silicic magmas. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 138, 1-16.

Bacon, C. R., Bruggman, P., Christiansen, R. L., Clynne, M. A., Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. & Hildreth, W. (1997). Primitive magmas at five Cascade volcanic fields: melts from hot, heterogeneous sub-arc mantle. Canadian Mineralogist , 35, 397-423.

Ritter, J.R.R., Evans, J.R. (1997). Deep structure of Medicine Lake volcano, California. Tectonophysics, 275, 221-241.

Grove, T.L., Donnelly-Nolan, J., Housh, T. (1997). Magmatic processes that generated the rhyolite of Glass Mountain, Medicine Lake volcano, N. California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 127, 205-223. 

Wagner, T.P., Donnelly-Nolan, J., Grove, T.L. (1995). Evidence of hydrous differentiation and crystal accumulation in the low-MgO, high-Al2O3 Lake Basalt from Medicine Lake volcano, California. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 121, 201-216. 

Dzurisin, D., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Evans, J.R., Walter, S.R. (1991). Crustal subsidence and extension and Medicine Lake volcano, northern California. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 96, 16319-16333. 

Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Champion, D.E., Miller, C.D., Grove, T.L., Trimble, D.A. (1990). Post-11,000-year volcanism at Medicine Lake Volcano, Cascade Range, northern California. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 95, 19693-19704. 

Evans, J. R. & Zucca, J. J. (1988). Active high-resolution seismic tomography of compressional wave velocity and attenuation structure at Medicine Lake volcano, Northern California Cascade Range. Journal of Geophysical Research , 93, pp. 15,016-15,036.

Donnelly-Nolan, J.M. (1988). A magmatic model of Medicine Lake Volcano, California. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 93, 4413-4420. 

Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Nolan, K.M. (1986). Catastrophic flooding and eruption of ash-flow tuff at Medicine Lake volcano, California. Geology, 14, 875-878.

Grove, T.L., Donnelly-Nolan, J.M. (1986). The evolution of young silicic lavas at Medicine Lake Volcano, California: Implications for the origin of compositional gaps in calc-alkaline series lavas. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 92, 281-302.

Finn, C.A., Williams, D.L. (1982). Gravity evidence for a shallow intrusion under Medicine Lake volcano, California. Geology, 10, 503-507. 

 

USGS General Publication

Fink, J.H., Anderson, S. W. (2017). Emplacement of Holocene silicic lava flows and domes at Newberry, South Sister, and Medicine Lake volcanoes, California and Oregon. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report,  2017-5022-I, 41 p.

Donnelly-Nolan, J.M., Champion, D.E., and Grove, T.L. (2016). Late Holocene volcanism at Medicine Lake volcano, northern California Cascades. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper , 2016-1822, 59 p.

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. (2008). Chemical analyses of pre-Holocene rocks from Medicine Lake Volcano and vicinity, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 2008-1094, 9 p.

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. (2006). Chemical analyses and K-Ar ages of samples from 13 drill holes, Medicine Lake volcano, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 2006-1041, 20 p.

Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. & Lanphere, M. A. (2005). Argon dating at and near Medicine Lake volcano, California: results and data. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 2005-1416, 37 p.

Moran, S. (Ed.) (2004). Seismic monitoring at Cascade Volcanic Centers, 2004 -- status and recommendations. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2004-5211, 28 p.

Childs, J. R., Lowenstern, J. B., Phillips, R. L., Hart, P., Rytuba, J. J., Barrow, J. A., Starratt, S. W. & Spaulding, S. (2000). Bathymetric, geophysical and geologic sample data from Medicine Lake, Siskiyou County, northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 00-043. 

Mariner, R. H., Evans, W. C. & Huebner, M. A. (1998). Preliminary chemical and isotopic data for waters from springs and wells on and near Medicine Lake Volcano, Cascade Range, northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 98-2, 27 p.

Waters, A. C., Donnelly-Nolan, J. M. & Rogers, B. W. (1990). Selected caves and lava-tube systems in and near Lava Beds National Monument, California. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin , 1673, 102 p.

Anderson, W.L. (1988), Interpretation of transient electromagnetic soundings at the Medicine Lake volcano, Siskiyou County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 88-582, 37 p. 

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