The Geologic Story of Mount Rainier / A look at the geologic past of one of America's most scenic volcanoes

by Dwight R. Crandell

Eunice Lake, northwest of Mount Rainier. The lake lies in a small bedrock basin that was scoured out by a glacier between about 15,000 and 20,000 years ago. The rounded green slopes at the far edge of the lake are underlain by rock that has been smoothed and grooved by glacier ice. This side of Mount Rainier rises to Liberty Cap, which hides the true summit of the volcano.

The Geologic Story
of Mount Rainier

By
Dwight R. Crandell

A look at the geologic past of one of America’s most scenic volcanoes

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1292

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

WALTER J. HICKEL, Secretary

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

William T. Pecora, Director

Library of Congress Catalog-Card No. 79-601704

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1969

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