Big Cave
Big Cave is a small shield volcano located in northern California in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of the Pacific Northwest. With an elevation listed at either or , it is the product of subduction of several tectonic plates under the North American Plate, which continues at a rate of each year.
Details
- Age
- Pleistocene or Holocene
- Url
- https://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/California/description_california_volcanoes.html
- Date
- 2002-09-20
- Type
- Shield volcano
- Work
- Cascades Volcano Observatory
- Range
- Cascade Range
- Title
- California Volcanoes and Volcanics
- Location
- Shasta County, California,United States
- Formed By
- Subduction zone volcanism
- Publisher
- United States Geological Survey
- Map Relief
- 1
- Elevation Ft
- 4130 or 4131
- Volcanic Arc
- Cascade Volcanic Arc
- Elevation Ref
- {{cite web
- Last Eruption
- unknown