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Unique Characteristics:

Unique Characteristics:. Granodiorite bedrock 90% Andesite lava flows 14,411 feet high. Unique Characteristics:. Granodiorite bedrock 90% Andesite lava flows 14,411 feet high. Unique Characteristics:. Granodiorite bedrock 90% Andesite lava flows 14,411 feet high.

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Unique Characteristics:

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  1. Unique Characteristics: • Granodiorite bedrock • 90% Andesite lava flows • 14,411 feet high

  2. Unique Characteristics: • Granodiorite bedrock • 90% Andesite lava flows • 14,411 feet high

  3. Unique Characteristics: • Granodiorite bedrock • 90% Andesite lava flows • 14,411 feet high

  4. “like bubbles in spaghetti sauce”

  5. Mount Rainier from Tacoma, WA.

  6. 14,411 feet

  7. Emmons Glacier

  8. Mt. Rainier Hazards • Lahars • Glacial outburst floods • Sector collapse • Lava and pyroclastic flows • Ash fall

  9. Nisqually Valley

  10. Mt. Rainier Hazards • Lahars • Glacial outburst floods • Sector collapse • Lava and pyroclastic flows • Ash fall

  11. Paradise Ice Cave

  12. Steam rising from summit crater fumaroles

  13. Mt. Rainier Hazards • Lahars • Glacial outburst floods • Sector collapse • Lava and pyroclastic flows • Ash fall

  14. Hydrothermal alteration

  15. Mt. Rainier Hazards • Lahars • Glacial outburst floods • Sector collapse • Lava and pyroclastic flows • Ash fall

  16. Andesite

  17. Columnar jointing

  18. Mt. Rainier Hazards • Lahars • Glacial outburst floods • Sector collapse • Lava and pyroclastic flows • Ash fall

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