Mount McLoughlin is a dormant steep-sided stratovolcano, or composite volcano, in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon and within the United States Sky Lakes Wilderness.
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10 Facts About Mount McLoughlin
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About 20 tree species can be found throughout Mount McLoughlin's surroundings, including Pacific yew at low elevations, mountain hemlock, whitebark pine, and subalpine fir at higher elevations, and lodgepole pine and red fir throughout.
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Mount McLoughlin's work established that the volcano was built over three eruptive phases, each with their own eruption types.
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Mount McLoughlin is part of the High Cascades, which trend north–south.
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At Mount McLoughlin, mean displacement rates for the past 16 million years have been 0.
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Mount McLoughlin is a stratovolcano, made up of basaltic andesite on top of underlying basaltic andesitic shield volcanoes.
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Early activity at Mount McLoughlin was explosive, and it yielded tephra and pyroclastic rock that built about a third of the overall volume.
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The change from Pitt to Mount McLoughlin was later confirmed by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1912.
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Mount McLoughlin's first known ascent took place in 1858, when Joseph Burpee, William Wilkinson, Dr Greer, Henry Klippel, John S Love, and Robert Haines, from the city of Jacksonville, reached the summit from the northeast.
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Mount McLoughlin Trail joins the Pacific Crest Trail for half a mile, then passes through a forested area for about 2.
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