Volcanoes around san jose

Lava flows and ashfall beds are widespread in our rocks, marking the progress of an ancient volcanic center through the area. And while the nearest active volcanoes are beyond the Sierra Nevada, they're close enough to keep an eye on. California has three major sources of volcanism and one minor one. The minor one is what we have in the Bay Area, but let me mention the others first.

The classic type of California volcanism arises from subduction. This diagram shows how it looks for northernmost California today, with an oceanic plate traveling beneath North America. Water and sediment on top of the downgoing plate acts like a flux, promoting melting in the overlying plate. That's how volcanoes are produced all around the Pacific "ring of fire," and all of California used to look that way.

Today the Cascade Range volcanoes are produced by this mechanism. California members of the Cascades include Mount Lassen, which last erupted in , and Mount Shasta, which may have erupted in the s. South of that, this system was interrupted when the San Andreas fault system formed and began extending northward now the boundary between the two tectonic regimes is a triple junction at Cape Mendocino. An example of Cascade volcanic deposits crops out south of Ocean Beach near San Francisco, a prominent ash bed in the seacliffs of the Merced Formation.

It's known as the Rockland ash and came from an ancestor of Lassen volcano, called Mount Tehama, about , years ago. The second major kind of California volcanism is beyond the Sierra, in the Mammoth Lakes area and points south.

The last "supervolcano" eruption from that area was about , years ago, and ash from it the Bishop Tuff fell here although I don't know where to point you to it.

That volcanism is related to stretching of the crust in the Basin and Range province, which basically includes all of Nevada and surrounding counties. Volcanoes near Puerto San Jose. What's happening! Sponsored Ads. Locals to connect with. Tour guides to help you. Been here. Save Me.

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