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Encyclopedia > Boring Lava Field
Bob's Mountain in Washington State

The Boring Lava Field is an extinct Plio-Pleistocene volcanic zone with at least 32 cinder cones and small shield volcanoes lying within a radius of 13 miles (21 km) of Kelly Butte, which is approximately 4 miles (6 km) east of downtown Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The name is derived from the town of Boring, Oregon which lies just to the southeast of the most dense cluster of lava vents. The zone became active at least 2.7 million years ago, and has been extinct for about 300,000 years.[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Volcano (disambiguation). ... “km” redirects here. ... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ... Wood mill in Boring. ...


The Portland metropolitan area, including suburbs, is one of the few places in the continental US to have extinct volcanoes within a city's limits; Bend, Oregon is another.[citation needed] Bend is a city in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. ...

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Oregon Vents[1]

  • Chamberlain Hill - Elevation 980 ft (299 m)
  • Cook's Butte - Elevation 718 ft (219 m)
  • Kelly Butte - Elevation 590 ft (180 m) (near the interchange of SE Powell Boulevard and I-205 in Portland)
  • Mount Scott - Elevation 1,050 ft (320 m) (named for Harvey W. Scott)
  • Mount Tabor - Elevation 641 ft (195 m) (center of a large multi-use Portland city park)
  • Larch Mountain - Elevation 4,055 ft (1,236 m)
  • Mount Sylvania - Elevation 958 ft (292 m)
  • Powell Butte - Elevation 620 ft (189 m)
  • Rocky Butte - Elevation 612 ft (187 m) (stone tower with outstanding view of Portland)
  • Ross Mountain - Elevation 1,380 ft (421 m)
  • Swede Hill - Elevation 995 ft (303 m)
  • TV Hill - Elevation 1,275 ft (389 m)
  • Walker Peak - Elevation 2,450 ft (747 m)
  • Highland Butte - Elevation 1,594 ft (486 m) (near Beavercreek, Oregon)

This Interstate Highway article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways. ... Harvey Whitfield Scott was (February 1, 1838 - August 7, 1910) was an American pioneer and newspaper editor. ... Mt. ... Larch Mountain is an extinct volcano in the Portland, Oregon area. ... Mount Sylvania is a dormant volcano on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. ... Powell Butte is an extinct volcanic cinder cone in Portland, Oregon. ... Rocky Butte is an extinct volcanic cinder cone in Portland, Oregon. ... Beaver Creek is a small unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon. ...

Washington Vents[1]

  • Battleground Lake - Elevation 750 ft (229 m) (miniature crater lake)
  • Bob's Mountain - Elevation 2,110 ft (643 m) (contains intact summit crater)
  • Brunner Hill - Elevation 680 ft (207 m)
  • Green Mountain - Elevation 804 ft (245 m) (logged off during the First World War)
  • Mount Norway - Elevation 1,111 ft (339 m)
  • Mount Pleasant - Elevation 1,010 ft (308 m)
  • Mount Zion - Elevation 1,465 ft (447 m)
  • Nichol's Hill - Elevation 1,113 ft (339 m)
  • Pohl's Hill - Elevation 1,395 ft (425 m)
  • Prune Hill - Elevation 610 ft (186 m) (overlooks Camas, Washington)

Battle Ground Lake State Park is a 280 acre park 21 miles northeast of Vancouver, Washington, USA, consisting of an ancient 400 foot volcano in the Boring Lava Field where a magma-induced steam explosion made a large bean-shaped crater which later filled with water. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Camas is located at (45. ...

Map

  • USGS Map of Boring Lava Field

References

  1. ^ a b c USGS Information page for the Boring Lava Field
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Volcanoes of Oregon
High Cascades Mt. Hood · Olallie Butte · Mt. Jefferson · Three Fingered Jack · Hogg Rock · Hoodoo Butte · Hayrick Butte · Black Butte · Mt. Washington · Belknap Crater · Black Crater · Three Sisters · Broken Top · Tumalo Mtn. · Mt. Bachelor · Maiden Peak · Diamond Peak · Howlock Mtn. · Mt. Thielsen · Mt. Bailey · Mt. Mazama / Crater Lake · Mt. Scott · Union Peak · Pelican Butte · Mt. McLoughlin · Aspen Butte
Western Cascades Boring Lava Field (Mt. Sylvania · Mt. Tabor · Rocky Butte · Powell Butte · Larch Mtn.)
Eastern Cascades Pilot Butte · Lava Butte · Newberry Volcano · Yamsay Mtn.
Basin and Range Big Hole · Hole-in-the-Ground · Fort Rock · Diamond Craters
Columbia Plateau Columbia River Basalt Group

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Boring Lava, Oregon (156 words)
Boring Lava is a monogenetic volcanic field made of up to 50 cinder cones an small shield volcanoes.
Most of this volcanic field is in the city of Portland and about 60 miles (100 km) west of Mount Hood and the axis of the Cascades.
Mount Tabor, in Mount Tabor State Park, is a cinder cone in the Boring Lava volcanic field.
CVO Menu - Mafic Volcanoes - Monogenetic Volcanoes (3683 words)
Sometimes a stratovolcano is at the center of the field, as at the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Arizona.
Amboy Crater is a prominent, undissected cinder cone in the northeastern quadrant of the lava field.
Craters of the Moon lava field lies along the northern border of the Snake River Plain, midway between Arco and Carey, Idaho.
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