Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...

Unlike old soldiers, old volcanoes seemingly don't even fade away, much less die, with researchers discovering magma chambers under cones previously classed as dormant after thousands of years of ...

Oregon's Cascade Range mountains might not hold gold, but they store another precious resource in abundance: water. Scientists from the University of Oregon and their partners have mapped the ...

While studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range north of the California border, Oregon scientists recently discovered something they did not expect: an aquifer containing much more ...

What differentiates an active volcano from a dormant one?While visible lava at the surface is an obvious indicator of activity, the long-standing ...

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades – possibly the largest ...

Scientists have unveiled a discovery hidden beneath the iconic volcanic peaks of Oregon's Cascade Range: an immense ...

According to a study published Jan. 13, at least 81 cubic kilometers of active groundwater is currently stored at the Cascade Range crest in an area near the Santiam Pass. That’s more than four ...

Part of that ring (though, it’s really more a horseshoe) bisects the Pacific Northwest via the Cascade Range, and it’s here that one of the most active volcanoes of the world can be found.

Oregon’s Cascade Range is not just a scenic landscape of volcanic peaks - it also hides a massive underground aquifer filled ...