'Geologic gift': One of world's largest aquifers is buried below Oregon's Cascade Range
Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...
Cascade Range Water Reservoir Discovery: A Hidden Lake Beneath Volcanic Peaks
Scientists have unveiled a discovery hidden beneath the iconic volcanic peaks of Oregon's Cascade Range: an immense underground aquifer estimated to hold a colossal 81 cubic kilometers of water. This ...
Hidden 'Continental-Size Lake' Discovered in Oregon
The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.
Gizmodo29 天
Massive Aquifer Beneath Oregon’s Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World
While studying the landscape of Oregon’s Cascade Range ... aid geologists in evaluating potential volcanic hazards. “It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the ...
Magma chambers found lurking in dormant volcanoes
It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state.' ...
Cascades Aquifer Found To Have Nearly Three Times As Much Water As Lake Mead
Scientists studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range found that an aquifer has nearly three times as much water as ...
Podcast: There's a massive underground aquifer in Oregon's Cascades. Why it’s important
In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks to researchers about an underground aquifer below the ...
USA Today11 天
'Geologic gift': One of world's largest aquifers is buried below Oregon's Cascade Range
University of Oregon earth scientist ... or three times the volume of Lake Mead, the United States’ largest reservoir — buried in the volcanic rocks from Mount Jefferson to just south of ...
Even ‘Sleeping’ Volcanoes Have Large Magma Bodies Sitting Beneath Them
A seismic survey challenges the long-standing belief that only active volcanoes have large magma bodies sitting beneath them.