Transcript Lassen Volcanoes National Park Projectx - Brown

Lassen Volcano National
Park
By Elise S.
Maps of Lassen Volcanic
Topographic & Relief Map of Lassen Volcanoes
Relief map of Lassen Volcanoes
Some important features at Lassen National Park are…
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Where Lassen National Park is in our Country
Lassen Peak
Pilot Pinnacle
Mount Diller
Brokeoff Mountain
Mount Conard
Mill Canyon
Little Hot Springs Valley
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Cold Boiling Lake
Devils Kitchen
Boiling Springs Lake
Drakesbad
Growler Hot Spring
Morgan Hot Springs
When & Why Lassen Volcanic became a
National Park
Lassen Volcano became an official
National Park on August 9, 1916. It was the
15th National Park. Since it was located in the
most popular state at the time many towns
people and ranchers visited it to camp and
fish in surrounding land around Lassen Peak.
It was great and people who lived near loved
it, but it didn’t get many visitors from far
away and it wasn’t likely to be a National Park
for a long time. Then the volcano erupted and
went dormant again. It soon became the
most recent eruption in the United States.
Still it was a small National Park, about only
the size of 1/7 of Yosemite.
The Gold rush brought the first settlers to
California. 2 people named William Nobles and Peter
Lassen made 2 pioneer trails. Parts of these trails are
still in Lassen today. The park was named after Peter
Lassen because he brought settlers here to try to build
a city. Early on the area had been given protection that
saved it from heavy logging. Even before then the
Lassen area was a meeting place for a least 4 American
Indian groups.
Kings Creek
Fantastic Lava Beds
Boiling Springs Lake
Mount Lassen/Manzanita Lake
Mount Lassen
Kings Creek
Kings Creek is a mountain
Mount Lassen is part of the Cascade Mountain
side river which drops 1,000ft of a cliff
Range. It was created on the destroyed Mount
of volcanic rock that is park of Mount
Tehama and also one of the biggest lava domes in Lassen. The land surrounding the falls
the world. When it erupted from 1914 – 1917 it
is full of lush green ferns and other
became 1 of 2 volcanoes in the United States to
plants that live of the mist the falls give
th
erupt in the 20 century. The top of Lassen Peak off.
has craters unlike most other lava dome
Kings Creek
volcanoes. For 25,000 years Lassen Peak was being
changed by glacier erosion. Now Mount Lassen is
the main attraction in the park which it is also
named after.
Manzanita Lake
Manzanita Lake was formed about 300
ago when a rock avalanche clogged
Manzanita Creek. From Manzanita Lake
you also have a great view of Lassen Peak.
Now Manzanita Lake is a popular place for
fishermen and Kayakers.
Mount Lassen in back, Manzanita Lake in front
How Technology is Used to
Help Preserve and Maintain
Lassen Volcanic
It would usually take many months to
clear the entire park from snow. Now a snow
cat leads the way for 3 bulldozers and a snow
blower. The cat has the help of global
positioning technology and by doing it this
way clearing the snow only takes about 2 ½
months working 10 hour shifts. Now much
more of the park is open for playing in the
snow, ski, and hike.
They model and track volcanic ash to
figure our when and where and when the
volcanoes in the park will erupt to keep
visitors and buildings safe.
Type of Rocks at Lassen Volcanic
How Lassen Volcanic was Formed
About 27,000 years ago Lassen
Peak started as magma (molten
rock) on Mount Tehama. The
magma came from inside the
earth and flowed upwards, over
years and years it formed Lassen
Peak. Now it’s 11,000ft high and
more that 11 miles wide.
Eventually the great Mount
Tehama collapsed helping form
smaller mountains around it.
Lassen Peak is one of these
smaller mountains. The last time it
erupted was in 1921. It was a
small eruption and didn’t cause
that much damage to people or
the surrounding area. This was
about 5 years after it became and
official National Park.
Settlers came to Lassen Peak and saw the
bubbling springs and vents spewing steam
around Lassen Peak and assumed the volcano
was extinct. The next year Lassen Peak erupted
and the mountain top exploded. Now Lassen
Peak is the most recent erupted volcano in the
connected 48 states.
How is the Land at Lassen Volcanic is
Changing Right Now
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Lassen has many forest fires. Every year
whole forests are burnt and the soil gets
nutrients from the fallen trees to regrow
again.
When it rains and when the snow melts
the rivers grow bigger. When this happens
the rivers can carry bigger rocks and more
silt. These things get dropped off and
form new landforms around the park.
When magma comes out of the volcanoes
as lava it cools and adds to the
mountains.
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