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Mount Shasta, California

Mount Shasta, California

Mount Shasta, California is the largest of the volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Over 4000 m high, it has the shape of the classic volcano. The rocks making the mountain are felsic and intermediate fragmental falls, fragmental flows, and lava flows. Activity began some 590,000 years ago and has erupted intermittently ever since. An account by an early European explorer and sailor suggests the last eruption was in 1786. See Christiansen, R.L (1990) Shasta. In Wood, C.A. and Kienle, J. Volcanoes of North America, p. 214-216, for more details.
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 Teaching Volcanic Petrology

The documents accessible from this page present an outline for a volcanic petrology course approximately 6 weeks long. It is designed for undergraduate students persuing a specialized degree in a branch of geoscience such as petroleum geology, environmental geology or geophysics.

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The first file explains why I wrote the second one.