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Hayrick Butte

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Prominence
  
563 ft (172 m)

Mountain type
  
Tuya

Mountain range
  
Cascade Range

Age of rock
  
80±20 thousand years

Elevation
  
1,683 m

Parent range
  
Cascade Range

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Location
  
Linn County, Oregon, U.S.

Topo map
  
USGS Three Fingered Jack

Similar
  
Hoodoo Butte, Hogg Rock, Belknap Crater, Big Hole, Aspen Butte

Hayrick Butte is a tuya, a type of volcano, in the Cascade Range of northern Oregon, located in the Willamette National Forest near Santiam Pass and just west of the Cascade Crest. It is adjacent to the cinder cone, Hoodoo Butte, which overlaps its western edge.

Map of Hayrick Butte, Oregon 97759, USA

A tuya is a type of subglacial volcano, formed when lava erupts underneath an overlying glacier or ice sheet and then melts through to the surface and pools, producing the flat plateau on top with near-vertical walls along the ice-contact margin as the lava cools and hardens. Hayrick Butte is one of the most perfectly formed examples of a tuya in the contiguous United States with a nearly flat triangular plateau about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) across and steep walls rising about 700 feet (210 m) above the plain below.

References

Hayrick Butte Wikipedia