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by datura
May 7th, 2020, 10:12 am
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020
Replies: 4
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Re: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020

... a geologic field trip that visits various Boring Volcanic Field features. One of the stops is in Oregon City, to an outcrop of the Basalt of Canemah. The field trip doesn't go to Highland Butte, though it does visit several other well-known buttes and related geologic features in the Boring ...
by bobcat
May 5th, 2020, 8:00 am
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020
Replies: 4
Views: 2742

Re: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020

I did look into Highland Butte last year as it's one of the three shield volcanoes among the Borings (the others being Larch Mountain and Mount Sylvania). It's on a BLM parcel and there's an old access road to the top (was there a lookout there?). However, there's a big construction project for comm...
by datura
April 30th, 2020, 3:01 pm
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020
Replies: 4
Views: 2742

Re: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020

... show various flows of the Wanapum basalt of the Columbia River Basalt Group in the park, along with some Troutdale formation and the Basalt of Canemah lava flows from the local Boring volcano. Plus, of course, landslide deposits, etc. Do you know if there are any public non-bushwhacking routes ...
by bobcat
April 30th, 2020, 12:49 pm
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020
Replies: 4
Views: 2742

Re: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020

It's a nice place, especially in the spring. A few years ago, someone with a key let us into the pioneer cemetery. I put a little about the geology in the Field Guide. The uppermost layers of lava are quite young (maybe 2 million years), coming from Highland Butte, a Boring volcano. The lower layers...
by datura
April 28th, 2020, 3:28 pm
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020
Replies: 4
Views: 2742

Canemah Bluff Nature Park -- April 26, 2020

... metro area or elsewhere in the PNW. This was my first time to the Canemah Bluff Nature Park, one of Portland's Metro Parks and Natural Areas. I had an hour or two available ...
by bobcat
February 2nd, 2012, 9:39 am
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: A Bunch of Boring Volcanoes
Replies: 22
Views: 24176

Re: A Bunch of Boring Volcanoes

... add a couple of things: @awildman: There is such a formation as the Canemah basalt that is part of the Boring Field. If you look at a geologic map of the Oregon City area , you see a vast area of it southeast of the Bluff. I'm guessing this probably issued from Highland Butte, one of the ...
by Dustin DuBois
February 1st, 2012, 7:54 pm
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: A Bunch of Boring Volcanoes
Replies: 22
Views: 24176

Re: A Bunch of Boring Volcanoes

It's not a volcano, but Canemah Bluff is an interesting geologic -- and historical -- relic as well. I think they were part of the Boring ...
by awildman
February 1st, 2012, 7:46 pm
Forum: Trip Reports
Topic: A Bunch of Boring Volcanoes
Replies: 22
Views: 24176

Re: A Bunch of Boring Volcanoes

It's not a volcano, but Canemah Bluff is an interesting geologic -- and historical -- relic as well. I think they were part of the Boring Lava deposit. Have you explored that area?

Wonderful write up!