Mount Baker summit crater
Volcano: | Mount Baker (see Mount Baker at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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Type: | Volcanic Plume |
Description: | Mount Baker is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount Saint Helens. |
Point of contact for this site:
Kenneth A. Mc Gee, cvo@usgs.gov (U.S. Geological Survey)
McGee Kenneth A., Michael P. Doukas, and Terrence M. Gerlach, 2001,Quiescent hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide degassing from Mount Baker, Washington, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.28, n.23, pp. 4479-4482