University of Oregon earth scientist Leif Karlstrom ... at least 81 cubic kilometers — or three times the volume of Lake Mead, the United States’ largest reservoir — buried in the volcanic rocks from ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks to researchers about an underground aquifer below the Central Cascade Mountains.

A massive aquifer is stored just beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades — possibly ... four times the capacity of Crater Lake, which holds approximately 18.7 cubic ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

The water eventually flowed back into the basin and settled on top of the volcanic debris. However, lava from the eruption had blocked the lake's natural outflow, which previously fed into the ...

The oldest piece of identified clothing — sandals found in southern Oregon — are older than the volcanic eruption, some 7,700 ...

Volcano Wake-up Time That seismic activity is a harbinger. “An eruption does not seem imminent, but it can't do this forever," Chadwick and his colleague, University of North Carolina geophysicist ...

The aquifer’s existence beneath volcanic rocks in Oregon has been known for some time ... “It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water ...

Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano located nearly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. This 3,600-foot-tall volcano, which spans 1.25 miles across ...

They also talk about how it fuels many of Oregon's most famous rivers and spurs dramatic volcanic eruptions at places such as Sand Mountain.