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Mt Wash

Edited Link for Mt. Washington as it took one to a page on Mount Washington in New Hampshire. This new external link will take one to Mt. Washington in Oregon, in the Cascade Mountain Range.

History

The following statement is misleading: "Geologists were also concerned that the St. Helens eruption would awaken other Cascade volcanoes like it did the previous century, when a total of eight erupted between 1800 and 1857." While it is true that the region was indeed active during that period, that activity was not "awakened" by Mount St. Helens. The Cascade volcanoes tend to stand in isolation from one another and are generally not linked magmaticly. Coincidental eruptions are just that, coincidences. A better phrasing might be "Geologists were also concerned that the St. Helens eruption was a sign that long-dormant Cascade volcanoes might become active once more, as in the period from 1800 to 1857 when a total of eight erupted."

above by User:Marquoz

Done as suggested. You could have changed it yourself. Vsmith 03:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"When the Cascades started to rise 7 million years ago in the Pliocene, the Columbia River drained the relatively low Columbia River Plateau." Wouldn't that be in the Miocene, not the Pliocene? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greg.collver (talk • contribs) 09:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Folded mountains?

The Cascade Range was formed when the North American Techtonic Plate crashed into the plate next to it. I wonder how long it took or if there are any folded mountains in the Cascades. Does anyone know?-eeb

Cascades redirect here

And I don't think it should. "Cascades" is also a popular term for the Cascade Volcanoes. From looking at the Cascade Range article, it focuses mostly on the Cascade Volcanoes and not the Cascade Range per se, leaving me in question what this redirect really should redirect to. Or maybe Cascades (disambiguation) should be renamed to Cascades. Black Tusk (talk) 06:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Cascade Volcanoes are a part of the Cascade Range. For Cascades to redirect here is wholly appropriate and fine. When a person talks about the Cascades, they are usually talking about the range as a whole, not just the volcanic peaks, especially in the geology scientific community.

If anything, the two articles might need to be merged into one article, if you ask me. Ryoga-2003 (talk) 20:55, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Cascade Volcanoes get their name from the Cascade Range, and the Cascade Range aka the Cascades gets its name from the Cascades Rapids et al. (Celilo Falls etc). In historical writing "he was at the Cascades" meant someone was in the locality of the Cascades Rapids, as a specific place; in modern terminology with a different preopsition means "he was in the Cascades" means he was in the mountain range somewhere. But the most common usage, clearly (especially when the Canadian usage of the term is included in deciding "most common usage") is clearly the mountain range (since none of the Canadian Cascades are Cascade Volcanoes although the Cascade Volcanoes extend into Canada, far beyond the boundary of the Cascade Range).Skookum1 (talk) 21:31, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are volcanoes in the Canadian Cascades (e.g. Coquihalla Mountain) but nothing active and long extinct. Black Tusk (talk) 04:01, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And to Ryoga-2003, absolutely not, no - they were originally one article and must needs be two as having different definitions and different contexts. The original unified article was heavily USPOV, as also is the notion that the Casacade Volcanoes and Cascade Range are one and the same. They are not (see previous post).Skookum1 (talk) 21:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CFD on Category:North Cascades of British Columbia

there's been no administrator action on this CfD since I put it up the other night, and its creator User:Shannon1 approves of the move; choices are either Category:Canadian Cascades or Category:Cascade Mountains of British Columbia; the sister category is Category:North Cascades of Washington. Please drop by and "make a vote" and maybe opine on which name is better; maybe if there are more than just the two of us are present in the discussion and there is broader input it may spur an admin to action. Speedy renaming criteria did not include "mistaken name at time of creation". As noted in my comments there, it may be proper to split the North Cascades article between the US usage and the Canadian usage even though the Skagit, Hozameen and Okanagan Ranges bridge the border. Question for Americans familiar with the Okanagan Range - is it usually included in the usage of the term "North Cascades"?? Terrain-wise it's much more similar to the northern Hozameen Range and the Lytton-Coquihalla patch of the range (which doesn't have an official subrange name; unofficial names for some patches are the Anderson River Group, Llamoid Group, and Coquihalla Range, though there's no such designation for the Lytton Mtn/Kanaka Mtn area, maybe because they're not of interest to climbers.Skookum1 (talk) 00:30, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Once the renaming is done, I'll happily populate the category; but for now, with the name at present, I just can't.Skookum1 (talk) 00:30, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First map in Geography section mis-labelled

Would the author of that map please re-label it; it is NOT correct to show the name "Cascade Range" on top of where the Coast Mountains are, or to label the Cascade Volcanoes in their Canadian portion as part of the Cascade Range; they are not. The label should simply be "Cascade Volcanoes" or "Cascade Volcanic Arc" or whatever the proper vulcanological group-term is.Skookum1 (talk) 00:46, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]