What if I were to tell you that not only can Oregon produce eruptions similar to Iceland's recent effusive eruptions, but it actually did a mere 11,000 years ago? This is the story of the Devils Garden volcano as told and analyzed by a volcanologist. The 3 year long eruption of the Devils Garden volcanic field thousands of years ago led to the emplacement of a 38 square mile lava field.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] U.S. Geological Survey
[2] J. Ewert, A. Diefenbach, D. Ramsey, "2018 Update to the U.S. Geological Survey National Volcanic
Threat Assessment", U.S. Geological Survey, Accessed October 22, 2022. https://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2018/5140/sir20185140.pdf

0:00 Oregon's Icelandic Like Volcano
0:53 Devils Garden
2:11 High Lava Plains
3:29 Lava Tube
4:25 Hazard Rating