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Mount Adams
• Potential volcano hazards
• Renewable sediment source
• Impacts on watersheds
U.S. Department of the InteriorU.S. Geological Survey
Klickitat–White Salmon Science ConferenceThe Dalles, Oregon
16 March 2010Willie Scott, USGS
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• Meager Mountain, B.C., to Lassen Peak, Calif.—750 miles
• More than 3,000 volcanic vents active in past 2 million yrs
Cascade Volcanic Arc
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Central Cascade Volcanic Arc
• 4 major active, long-lived centers [Rainier, St. Helens, Adams, Hood]
• ~300 short-lived volcanoes
• 100-mile wide from west of Portland to Goldendale
• Columbia River
From Hildreth, USGS Prof. Paper 1744
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Paricutín, Mexico, 1943–1952Short-lived volcano; one of many in a broad
volcanic field
USGS photos by R.E. Wilcox
USGS photos by F.W. Foshag
Tephra fallout and lava flows
Local analogs:• Little Mountain(near Trout Lake)• Little Mount Adams• Also larger shield volcanoes; King Mountain
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Lava Flows and Tephra Erupt from Summit and Flank Vents
Potato
PikersRed
Little MA
GoatMilligan
Suksdorf
South
A.G. Aiken
Summit
Muddy Fork
Vents of main focusVents east of focus
Hot eruptive products can swiftly melt snow and ice; water incorporates rock debris to make lahars (debris flows)
© matutech
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Effects of tephra fall (ashfall)
• Reduces visibility
• Loads structures
• Abrasive and conductive
• Health risks
• Clean-up
© Erik Hill, Anchorage Daily News
© Yakima Herald-Republic
US Forest Service photo
Photos without credit are from USGS© Douglas Miller
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Lahar (debris flows)Water-mobilized slurries of mud, rock, and organic debris Follow valleys Range of sizes
Large flows extend tens of miles; cover valley floors
• Swift melting of ice and snow during eruptions
• Debris avalanches of weakened, saturated rock
Small flows extend up to a few miles
• Rainfall and glacier outbursts
• Small landslides
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Lahar effects=
Montserrat Volcano Observatory
• Erosion• Burial• Impact
forces• Altered
channels
Armero, Colombia, 1985 USGS photo
USGS photo
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Sediment impacts on river channels can last
for decades
US Army Corps of Engineers
US Army Corps of Engineers
USGS photo
© Robert McCune
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Widespread Hydrothermal Alteration
Finn and others, 2007, JGR
• Almost ½ cubic mile of altered material
• Bowl-shaped mass
• Largest mass of altered material high on a Cascade volcano???
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Source of 3 large debris avalanches and lahars (and many smaller ones) during past 10,000 years
~ 200 years old
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Large debris avalanches spawn large lahars
© Darryl Lloyd
© Darryl Lloyd
Probability of larger-volume avalanches increases during time of unrest or eruption, but how large is possible during quiet times?
Largest ~100 million cubic yards; 6,000 years ago
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Volcano-Hazard Map
Adams long-lived, recurrently active • Past 500,000 years
Chief hazards• Debris avalanches, lahars and floods (red-dashed lines)• Lava flows (blue area) and tephra
Fields of short-lived volcanoes such as Indian Heaven
Chief hazards• Lava flows (pink and yellow areas) and tephra
Mount Adams
IndianHeaven
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Hazard Assessment and Coordination Planning
Multi-agency coordination planning underway for St. Helens-Adams region
WS-EMD and DNR, GPNF, Yakama Nation, USGS, counties, FEMA
[http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Adams/Hazards/OFR95-492/framework.html; also includes link to digital data]
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Volcano Monitoring
GUL
ASRCDF
GLK
TRW
GL2
AUG
AdamsSt. Helens
Hood
Rainier• Volcanoes require dense seismic networks to locate small events
• Adams not well monitored
• Continuous GPS stations for real-time monitoring of ground deformation
• USGS proposal to upgrade volcano monitoring in US and Territories
USGS photo
Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
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An almost unlimited sediment source:
© Darryl Lloyd
• Steep, locally weakened, upper flanks subject to rockfalls and avalanches
• Since 1921, range in volume up to 5 million cubic yards
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Floods and debris flows generated by heavy rainfall (11/06) and major rain-on-snow events; also glacier outbursts
© Darryl Lloyd© Darryl Lloyd
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Upper Salt Creek
Upper channels incised by water floods, entrain debris, become debris flows; or begin as landslides
Deposition in lower reaches; fans and channel fills; creation of new channels
Both environments remain potential sediment sources between main events
© Darryl Lloyd
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Oct 2003Nov 2006
Fall Chinook Mortality from High Sediment Concentration in Klickitat River
• Kills (dozens to few hundred fish) every few years in Oct-Nov
• High sediment concentration; modest increase in flow
• Many originate at Adams; others in eastern tributaries
• Rain, rain-on-snow, landslidesJoe Zendt and Bill Sharp, YKFP
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What are effects of retreating glaciers on sediment budget?
Retreat/thin for past ~200 years
Exposes debris
Creates debris-covered snouts
Exposes cliffs
Other climate-change possibilities:
• Increased intensity or frequency of autumn rainstorms?
• Less effective snowpack “sponge”?
More questions than answers, but high sediment yields are going to continue to be an issue on Klickitat and White Salmon
© Darryl Lloyd
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Mount Rainier as Analog?
Streams within Mount Rainier NP
• Most channels are aggrading
• Recent average rate up to ten times historical rate; may be decreasing MRNP staff
Conclusions• Complex channel responses in space and time• Effects of levees, development?• Similar processes as in past• Role of changing glacier and climate conditions uncertain
Channels downstream from
Mount Rainier National Park
USGS, Wash. Water Sci. Ctr
• Some aggrading, some incising, some not changing• Role of changing glacier and climate conditions???
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Summary
• Potential hazards from Mount Adams and surrounding volcanic fields [http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Adams/Hazards/OFR95-492/framework.html; also includes link to digital data]
Lava flows and ashfalls Adams’ lahars are greatest potential threat Debris avalanches from weakened summit rocks (esp. White Salmon)
• Region warrants enhanced volcano monitoring
• High sediment fluxes and debris flows are expectable
• What will be watershed response to ongoing environmental changes? Ripe research topic