USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington

Mount Baker, Washington

Current Activity
- Link to: Current Seismicity -- Link courtesy University of Washington Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
- Cascade Range Current Activity Updates -- includes Mount Baker
Background and Information
- CASCADE RANGE SUMMARY: Mount Baker
- DESCRIPTION: Mount Baker and Vicinity -- Geographic Setting, Geologic and Eruptive Activity -- includes Mount Baker Volcano ... Geologic and Geographic Setting ... Geologic History and Eruptive Activity ... Black Buttes ... Dorr Fumarole Fields ... Glaciers ... Historical Information ... Hydrology ... Hydrothermal Activity ... Kulshan Caldera ... Joseph Baker ... Mazama Ash ... Monitoring ... Points of Interest ... Schriebers Meadow Cinder Cone ... Sherman Crater ... Summit Cone ... Thermal Activity 1975-1976 ... Volcano and Hydrologic Monitoring ...
Current Hazards Report
- CURRENT 1995 HAZARDS REPORT: Potential Volcanic Hazards from Future Activity of Mount Baker, Washington -- 1995 Updated Volcano-Hazards Assessment
Special Items of Interest
- Mount Baker -- Living With An Active Volcano -- Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Brief Eruptive History -- Excerpt from: Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Geologic and Geographic Setting -- Excerpt from: Gardiner, et.al., 1995
- Visit A Volcano - Mount Baker -- points of interest, maps, links, etc.
Maps, Graphics, and Images
- Maps and Graphics - Mount Baker
- CVO Photo Archives - Mount Baker
Publications and Reports
- Publications and Reports - Mount Baker
Useful Links
- Useful Links - Washington State -- includes Mount Baker Region
Items of Interest
- Active and Potentially Active Volcanoes in Washington -- Excerpt from: Wright and Pierson, 1992, USGS Circular 1073, includes Mount Baker
- Activity 1975-1976 -- latest "activity" ... thermal activity, steaming, snow melt, etc.
- ArcInfo Coverage -- 1995 Washington State On-Line Spacial Data Sets, includes Mount Baker
- Assessment of increased thermal activity at Mount Baker, Washington, March 1975-March 1976 -- Frank, et.al., 1977, USGS Professional Paper 1022-A
- Baker (Joseph Baker)
- Black Buttes - Description
- Boulder Glacier - Description
- Brief Eruptive History -- Excerpt from: Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Cascade Range Current Activity Updates -- includes Mount Baker
- Cascade Range Summary - Mount Baker
- Cascades Eruptions During the Past 4000 Years - Graphic -- [Graphic,70K,InlineGIF] -- includes Mount Baker
- Cascade Range Volcanoes - Interactive Table -- interactive table, includes brief volcano summary, links to current publications and research, includes Washington State Volcanoes
- Cascade Range Volcanoes and Volcanics - Menu -- general information on the Cascade Range Volcanoes and Volcanic Activity, including Mount Baker
- Coleman Glacier - Description
- Current Seismicity - Link -- Link courtesy University of Washington Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
- Deformation Project - CVO Project Menu -- general information on the Volcano Deformation Project, including the monitoring of Mount Baker
- Demming Glacier - Description
- Dorr Fumarole Field - Description
- Earthquakes and Seismicity - Menu -- Mount Baker seismic activity, history, maps, monitoring, etc.
- Eruptive History - Menu
- Eruptive History -- Brief Eruptive History -- Excerpt from: Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Fraser Glaciation - Description
- Fumaroles - Description -- Dorr Fumarole Field, Sherman Crater, etc.
- Geographic Setting
- Geologic and Geographic Setting -- Excerpt from: Gardner, et.al., 1995, USGS Open-File Report 95-498
- Geologic Map of the Mount Baker 30- by 60-Minute Quadrangle, Washington -- Tabor, et.al., 2003, Map-I-2006
- Geologic Map of Washington State -- [Map,82K,InlineGIF]
- Glacier Peak - Menu -- nearby neighbor
- Glaciers - Mount Baker - Description
- Glaciers - Mount Baker - Map
- Glaciers and Glaciations - Mount Baker - Menu
- Hazards - Menu
- Hazards Report and Map -- Current 1995
- Historical Information
- Hydrology - Menu
- Hydrothermal Activity - Description
- Infrared surveys, radiant flux, and total heat discharge at Mount Baker Volcano, Washington, between 1970 and 1975 -- Friedman and Frank, 1980, USGS Professional Paper 1022-D
- Joseph Baker
- Kulshan Caldera - Description
- Living With An Active Volcano - Mount Baker -- Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Mazama Ash - Description
- Maps and Graphics - Mount Baker
- Maps and Graphics - Washington State
- 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 -- Chadwick, et.al., 1985, USGS Open-File Report 85-205
- Monitoring - Menu
- Mount Baker - Brief Eruptive History -- Excerpt from: Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Mount Baker - Description -- Geographic Setting, Geologic and Eruptive Activity
- Mount Baker -- Living With An Active Volcano -- Scott, et.al., 2000, USGS Fact Sheet 059-00
- Mount Baker - Points of Interest -- Summit Cone, Lakes and Drainages, Sherman Crater, Dorr Fumarole Field, Schriebers Meadow Cinder Cone
- Mount Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest -- U. S. Forest Service Links
- Mount Baker - Visit A Volcano -- information, maps, tourism, links, etc.
- North Cascades - Menu -- general information on the North Cascades, including Mount Baker and Glacier Peak
- North Cascades National Park -- general information on the North Cascades, including Mount Baker and Glacier Peak
- Origin, distribution, and rapid removal of hydrothermally formed clay at Mount Baker, Washington -- Frank, 1983, USGS Professional Paper 1022-E
- Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) -- University of Washington's Geophysics Program's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN)
- CVO Photo Archives - Mount Baker
- Points of Interest
- PostGlacial Mount Baker -- Excerpt from: Hyde and Crandell, 1978, USGS Professional Paper 1022-C
- Potential Volcanic Hazards from Future Activity of Mount Baker, Washington -- Gardiner, et.al., 1995, USGS Open-File Report 95-498
- Publications and Reports - Mount Baker
- Schriebers Meadow Cinder Cone - Description
- Seismicity - Menu -- Mount Baker seismic activity, history, maps, monitoring, etc.
- Sherman Crater - Description -- formation, eruptive history
- Shuksan (Mount Shuksan) - Menu -- nearby neighbor
- Summary of last 14,000 years of activity at Mount Baker - Graphic -- [Graphic,25K,InlineGIF] -- From: Gardner, et.al., 1995, USGS Open-File Report 95-498, Originally modified from: Hyde and Crandell, 1978, USGS Professional Paper 1022-C
- Summit Cone - Description
- Thermal and Hydrothermal Activity - Description -- Dorr Fumarole Field, Sherman Crater, etc.
- Thermal Activity 1975-1976 -- latest "activity"
- Visit A Volcano - Mount Baker -- includes information, maps, driving information, links, etc.
- Volcano Deformation Project - CVO Project Menu -- general information about the Volcano Deformation Project, including monitoring Mount Baker
- Volcano Names -- includes Mount Baker
- Washington State Volcanoes and Volcanics - Menu -- general information on Washington State Volcanoes and Volcanic Activity, including Mount Baker
- Water-quality effects on Baker Lake of recent volcanic activity at Mount Baker, Washington
  -- Bortleson, et.al., 1977, USGS Professional Paper 1022-B, 29p.

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05/21/07, Lyn Topinka