Cascade_Volcanoes

Cascade Volcanoes The Pacific Northwest is home to the Cascade Volcanoes. Between Southern British Columbia and Northern California is where the Cascades thrust out of the earth. All along the range majestic peaks climb towards the sky. The Gorda, Juan de Fuca, and Explorer plates are being pulled down into the Cascadia subduction zone and beneath the North America plate. As a result of this the Cascade range was formed, and is still being changed to this day by the interaction of these plates. Because of this specific type of interaction between the plates the Cascades are volcanic. Within the range there are varying types of volcanoes. Major peaks like Mt. Ranier and Mt. Hood are composite volcanoes. Lassen Volcanic National Park has good examples of many types of volcanoes. The peak we see today is a plug dome volcano. However, there are shield volcanoes, and cinder cascade, volcanoes, mt, range, volcanic, types, st, plates, helens, very, ranier, peaks, park, near, national, major, lassen, interaction, hood, good, examples, example, eruption, erupt, cascades, between, being, zone, whenever, warpath, volcano, violent, vent, varying, type, towards, today, thrust, throughout, through, surrounding, subduction, specific, southern, sorts, sky, sized, shield, seattle