Mount Maidu

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Mount Maidu
Mount Maidu
Highest point
Elevation 6,965 ft (2,123 m)
Coordinates 40°17′56″N121°37′1″W / 40.29889°N 121.61694°W / 40.29889; -121.61694
Geology
Mountain type Stratovolcano [1]
Last eruption Pleistocene [1]

Mount Maidu, located in Tehama County, California, is an extinct stratovolcano [1] south of the Lassen volcanic center. It has Mineral, California, a small community, in its caldera.

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Geography

Mount Maidu is located southwest of Mount Tehama, northwest of Lake Almanor, and north of Chico, California.

Geology

Mount Maidu is one of the several stratovolcanoes that surround the modern Lassen Peak. [2] It has rhyolite lava domes on its northern flank. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Maidu". Global Volcanism Program. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  2. ↑ "Eruption History of the Lassen Volcanic Center and Surrounding Region". USGS. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
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