Cline Buttes are mountains with volcanic origins that form three dome-shaped peaks located in Deschutes County in central Oregon.
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12 Facts About Cline Buttes
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The Cline Buttes are a stand-alone mountain with the nearest higher peak 12 miles to the south.
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The Cline Buttes have been significantly eroded over time, leaving a rounded dome shape with three separate crests.
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The rhyolite lava flow deposits at Cline Buttes show a roughly porphyritic texture, with oligoclase phenocrysts making up between 1 and 2 percent of the minerals.
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Cline Buttes volcanoes produced rhyodacite, which varies in color from light gray to red-brown and are similarly sparsely porphyritic.
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The basalt lava flows produced a now-weathered hill on the western flank of the Cline Buttes, which is not topped by rhyodacite and therefore likely formed after that lava erupted, despite having a lower relative elevation.
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Slopes of the Cline Buttes are covered by an old-growth juniper forest with an understory dominated by low sagebrush.
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Birds common to the Cline Buttes area include mountain chickadee, American goldfinch, lesser goldfinch, Black-headed grosbeak, mountain bluebird, Steller's jay, northern flickers, and black-billed magpie.
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Cline Buttes were named in honor of Doctor Cass A Cline, a pioneer dentist and early land developer in central Oregon.
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Cline Buttes immigrated to Oregon in 1853, settling in the Willamette Valley.
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At its peak, the town of Cline Buttes Falls had a post office, a school, two stores, two hotels, a newspaper, a power plant, and 500 residential lots for sale.
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Cline Buttes are particularly well known for their mountain bike trails.
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