Dikes of a Strato Volcano

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Checking out some swarmy dikes in the spring time. This Miocene volcano was due to the Pacific Plate dragging our plate westward and thinning the area for all kinds of volcanic mayhem. Strato means viscous layered as opposed to flat soupy basalt lava flows. The recent rhyolitic volcanoes of the northwest Cascades are stratos. Hard to find anything resembling those from the 15 Ma Miocene, just their ash, dikes, and plutons but there was a time fit only for the Bear Dogs.

Geology of Northern McCulloughs:
http://geoscience.unlv.edu/files/Smith,%20Honn%20and%20Johnsen%202010.pdf

Free Geology Map:
https://pubs.nbmg.unr.edu/Prel-geol-Boulder-City-NW-p/of2017-05.htm

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