U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011–3024
Summary
The volcanic spires of the Sutter Buttes tower 2,000 feet above the farms and fields of California’s Great Valley, just 50 miles north-northwest of Sacramento and 11 miles northwest of Yuba City. The only volcano within the valley, the Buttes consist of a central core of volcanic domes surrounded by a large apron of fragmental volcanic debris. Eruptions at the Sutter Buttes occurred in early Pleistocene time, 1.6 to 1.4 million years ago. The Sutter Buttes are not part of the Cascade Range of volcanoes to the north, but instead are related to the volcanoes in the Coast Ranges to the west in the vicinity of Clear Lake, Napa Valley, and Sonoma Valley. |
Contact Information
Volcano Science Center - Menlo Park U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Road, MS 910 Menlo Park, CA 94025 http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/ This report is presented in Portable Document Format (PDF); the latest version of Adobe Reader or similar software is required to view it. Download the latest version of Adobe Reader, free of charge. |
Hausback, B.P., Muffler, L.J.P., and Clynne, M.A., 2011, Sutter Buttes—the lone volcano in California’s Great Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3024, 4 p.
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