Black Butte by Jodi Pierce

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The name of our mountain is called Black Butte

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Black Butte is located in central Oregon in the cascade mountain range

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Plunked in the midst of the Central Oregon plateau, Black Butte looks like a misplaced mountain. A steep but view-packed trail climbs 1.9 miles to the panoramic summit, gaining 1,600 feet of elevation. The last portion of this route is difficult enough that it is not generally recommended for hikers with children.

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(from Conner M.)

Black Butte's unusual placement east of the High Cascades makes it ideal as a fire lookout site. In 1910 one of Oregon's earliest fire detection structures was built here: a simple "squirrel's nest" platform wedged between two adjacent treetops. That original lookout is gone, but Black Butte has collected a variety of other lookout structures since then: an intact cupola-style building from 1923, the ruins of a collapsed 1934 tower, and a modern 62-foot tower from 1995. In 1980 a one-room log cabin was constructed in Sisters, disassembled, and flown by helicopter to Black Butte's summit as living quarters for the fire lookout staff.

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Black Butte's last eruption was 9,500 years ago

Until the turn of the century Black Butte Ranch was a land seen only by trappers, army engineers on survey missions, migrant Indian tribes, itinerant seekers of gold, cattlemen who drove their herds over the mountains, one homesteader who manned a wagon road toll station, and a family whose 160 acre homestead was used as a summer residence only

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Lava Butte is a cinder cone in central Oregon, United States, just west of US Highway 97 between the towns of Bend, Oregon, and Sunriver, Oregon. It is part of a system of small cinder cones on the northwest flank of Newberry Volcano, a massive shield volcano which rises to the southeast. The cinder cone is capped by a crater which extends about 60 feet (20 m) deep beneath its south rim, and 160 feet (50 m) deep from the 5,020-foot (1,530 m) summit on its north side. Lava Butte is part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.

The Black Butte is on the Juan de Fuca plate boundary

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Black butte looks young but is older than Mount Washington and is extinct.

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Black Butte is an extinct volcano so there will be no future eruptions

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Black Butte is a stratovolcano which is a volcano built up of alternate layers of lava and ash.

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Black Butte is east of the Cascade crest and does not receive enough precipitation to support glaciers, so erosion is minimal

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Proccess for a stratovolcano: These more viscous lavas allow gas pressures to build up to high levels (they are effective "plugs" in the plumbing), therefore these volcanoes often suffer explosive eruptions.

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