Maps

Most of Newberry Volcano's youngest lava flows are found within the Newberry National Volcanic Monument in central Oregon. Established November 5, 1990, the monument is managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Deschutes National Forest. Since 2011, a series of aerial surveys over the monument collected elevation data using lidar (light detection and ranging) technology, which uses lasers

Newberry volcano, one of the largest Quaternary volcanoes in the conterminous United States, is a broad shieldlike landform with a summit caldera 7 km across. It comprises the products of thousands of eruptions, at least 25 of which occurred during the last 10,000 years (Holocene Epoch). Eruptions have occurred as recently as 1,300 years ago, but isotopic ages indicate that the volcano began its g

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