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Publications

Selected USGS publications about Mount Shasta. 

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

Christiansen, R. L., Calvert, A. T. & Grove, T. L. (2017). Geologic field-trip guide to Mount Shasta Volcano, northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report , 2017-5022-K3, 33 p.

 

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

Crandell, D. R. (1989). Gigantic debris avalanche of Pleistocene age from ancestral Mount Shasta Volcano, California, and debris-avalanche hazard zonation. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin , 1861, 32 p.

Crandell, D. R. & Nichols, D. R. (1989). Volcanic hazards at Mount Shasta, California. U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product , 22 p. 

Miller, C. D. (1989). Potential hazards from future volcanic eruptions in California. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin , 1847, 17 p.

Christiansen, R. L. (1982). Volcanic hazard potential in the California Cascades. Martin, R. C. & Davis, J. F. (Eds.) ,Special Publication , 63, p. 41-59. 

Miller, C. D. (1980). Potential hazards from future eruptions in the vicinity of Mount Shasta Volcano, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin , 1503, 43 p.

 

Journal Articles

Christiansen, R.L., Calvert, A.T., Champion, D.E., Gardner, C.A., Fierstein, J.E., Vazquez, J.A. (2020). The remarkable volcanism of Shastina, a stratocone segment of Mount Shasta, California. Geosphere, 16, 1153-1178.

Natenson, M., Thompson, J.M., White, L.D. (2003). Slightly thermal springs and non-thermal springs at Mount Shasta, California: Chemistry and recharge elevations. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 121, 137-153. 

Elikins Tanton, L.T., Grove, T.L., Donnelly-Nolan, J. (2001). Hot, shallow mantle melting under the Cascades volcanic arc. Geology, 29, 631-634. 

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.

Ui, T., Glicken, H. (1986). Internal structural variations in a debris-avalanche deposit from ancestral Mount Shasta, California, USA. Bulletin of Volcanology, 48, 189-194.

Crandell, D. R., Miller, C. D., Glicken, H. X., Christiansen, R. L. & Newhall, C. G. (1984). Catastrophic debris avalanche from ancestral Mount Shasta volcano, California. Geology , 12, pp. 143-146.

 

USGS General Publication

Robinson, J. E. (2014). Digital topographic data based on lidar survey of Mount Shasta Volcano, California, July-September 2010. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series, 852. 

Hildreth, W. (2007). Quaternary Magmatism in the Cascades - Geologic Perspectives. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper , 1744, 125 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.

Blodgett, J.C., Poeschel, K.R., Osterkamp, W.R. (1996). Characteristics of debris flows of noneruptive origin on Mount Shasta, northern, California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 96-144, 31 p. 

Ewert, J. W. & Swanson, D. A. (Eds.) (1992). Monitoring Volcanoes: Techniques and Strategies Used by the Staff of the Cascades Volcano Observatory, 1980-90. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin , 1966, 223 p.

Huff, C.R., Osterkamp, W.R., Thornton, J.L. (1987) Dendrogeomorphic evidence and dating of recent debris flows on Mount Shasta, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1396-B, 39 p.

Driedger, C. & Kennard, P. (1986). Ice Volumes on Cascade Volcanoes: Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Three Sisters, and Mount Shasta. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper , 1365, 28 p.

Osterkamp, W.R., Hupp, C.R., Blodgett, J.C. (1986). Magnitude and frequency of debris flows, and areas of hazard on Mount Shasta, Northern California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1396-C, 21 p.

Chadwick, W., Iwatsubo, E., Swanson, D. A. & Ewert, J. W. (1985). Measurements of slope distances and vertical angles at Mount Baker and Mount Rainier, Washington, Mount Hood and Crater Lake, Oregon, and Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak, California, 1980-1984. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 85-205, 98 p.

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