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Timeline for eruptions at Mount Baker during the Holocene (12,000 years ago to present).

Potential volcanic hazards 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.

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.

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).

No date exists for this photograph, but the image is likely circa 1900. Note the postcard copyright date of 1903.

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.