Mount McLoughlin

Mount McLoughlin
Mount McLoughlin
height	2894  m
location	Oregon , USA
Mountains	Cascade chain
Coordinates	42 ° 26 '44 "  N , 122 ° 18' 59"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 26 '44 "  N , 122 ° 18' 59"  W
Type	Stratovolcano
Last eruption	20,000 years ago

Mount McLoughlin is a 2894 meter high stratovolcano in the Cascade Range in the southern US state of Oregon . It is located north of Mount Shasta , south of Crater Lake and west of Upper Klamath Lake . The mountain was originally called Mount Pitt, but was later renamed after John McLoughlin, an official with the Hudson's Bay Company . The last eruption occurred around 20,000 years ago. It glaciated about 25,000 years ago.

Alternative names for Mount McLoughlin include Big Butte, M'laiksini Yaina, Mount Pit, Mount Pitt, Mount Shasty, and Snowy Butte.

Except for an excerpt from Arthur B. Emmons from 1886, little was known about geology until the 1970s when LeRoy Maynard began investigating it. He was a geologist with the University of Oregon Center for Volcanology .

Web links

Commons : Mount McLoughlin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• USGS over Mount McLoughlin (English)