Tumalo Volcanic Center Explained

Tumalo Volcanic Center
Elevation Ft:	1955
Range:	Cascade Range
Coordinates:	44.099°N -121.541°W
Age:	More than 500,000 years^[1]
Volcanic Arc:	Cascade Volcanic Arc
Last Eruption:	Pleistocene

The Tumalo volcanic center of Central Oregon is viewed as a source of large-volume Pleistocene ashflows, in the US state of Oregon.^[2]

The eruption, ashflows included

How big was the volcanic eruption? Imagine a cube of lava, one that's 1.5miles long by 1.5miles wide by 1.5miles high.

Ashflows include

1. Desert Spring Tuff,
2. Bend Pumice
3. Tumalo Tuff, and
4. Shevlin Park Tuff.

The area has many rhyolitic domes, such as Melvin Butte, plus andesitic cinder cones, including those of the Triangle Hill and Triangle Peak area, whose composition is similar to the Tumalo Tuff (and Bend Pumice), and Shevlin Park Tuff.

This area has andesitic and mafic cinder cones, such as Lava Butte.^[3] and rhyolite domes.^[4] Viscous rhyolite domes extruded to the surface.^[5]

Ways the Tumalo Volcanic Center's ashflows have been used

The Tumalo Volcanic Center's ashy pumice was quarried for concrete. This concrete effectively built the city of Bend, Oregon

Pumice from the Tumalo Volcanic Center composes Oregon State University–Cascades's expansion, into a pumice mine.^[6]

See also

• Tumalo Mountain

External links and references

• Volcanocafe, has information about the Tumalo Volcanic Center
• Information on Tumalo Volcanic Center's vent

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ross . Erin . Oregon Public Broadcasting . Oregon Public Broadcasting.
2. Web site: Smithsonian .
3. • Book: Harris, S. L. . Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes . Mountain Press Publishing Company . Missoula, Montana . 2005 . Third . Chapter 13: The Three Sisters . 978-0-87842-511-2 . 33.
4. Book: Plummer . Charles C. . McGeary . David . 1988 . Physical Geology . 4th . Dubuque, Iowa . Wm. C. Brown Publishers . 978-0-697-05092-2 . 54.
5. Web site: Faculty of the School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science . Rhyolite . 2006 . The University of Auckland . 2017-11-29 . .
6. Web site: Klemetti . Erik . July 31, 2019 . The Hidden Volcanoes of Central Oregon .