The Volcanic History of Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Volcanic History of Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
In the volcanic belt of the Alaskan coast there are a number of vigorously active volcanoes. So also in Central America and Mexico, but in the Cascade Range the volcanoes appear to be near extinction.
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Geology of the Lassen Peak District (Classic Reprint)
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The pre...)
Excerpt from Geology of the Lassen Peak District
The preliminary survey of the Cascade Range clearly indicated that the point at which to begin a study of its details was in the vicinity of Lassen Peak. This locality was considered of particular interest on account of the great (variety of its lavas, the recency of some of its volcanic eruptions, and the vigorous solfataric action which still survives. It was anticipated also that a careful study of this region would solve one of the perplexing geographic problems of the Pacific coast, viz. The relations between the Coast, Cascade, and Sierra Nevada Ranges.
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Geological History of Crater Lake: Crater Lake National Park (Classic Reprint)
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The one in the United States belongs to the great volcanic field of the Northwest. Crater Lake of southern Oregon lies in the very heart of the Cascade Range, and, while it is especially attractive to the geologist on account of its remarkable geologic history, it is equally inviting to the tourist and others in search of health and pleasure by communion with the beautiful and sublime in nature. By the act of May 22, 1902, a tract around this lake having an area of acres was set aside as a national park/ According to W. G. Steel 1 the lake was first seen by white men in 18 5 3. It had long previously been known to the Indians, whose legends have contributed a name, Llao Rock, to one of the prominences of its rim. They regarded the lake with awe as an abode of the Great Spirit. Prospectors were the earliest explorers of the lake.2 The first travelers of note who visited the lake were Lord Maxwell and Mr. Bentley, who in 1872, with Capt. O. C. Applegate, of Modoc war fame, and three others, made a boat trip along its borders and named several of the prominences on the rim after members of the party.3 Mrs. E. F. Victor saw the lake in 1873, and briefly describes it in Atlantis Arisen.4 The same year Mr. S. A. Clarke gave an interesting account of the lake in the December number of the Overland Monthly.
The first Geological Survey party visited the lake in 188 3, when Everett Hayden and the writer, after spending several days in examining the rim, tumbled logs over the cliffs to the water's edge, lashed them together with ropes to make a raft, and paddled over to the island. In 1886.
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Joseph Silas Diller was an American geologist. He was also a specialist on asbestos, coal, placer gold and chromic iron ore. He is perhaps best remembered for his studies of Crater Lake and analysis of Tertiary peneplanation and regional uplift.
Background
Diller was born on August 27, 1850 near Plainfield, Pennsylvania, the eldest of the three children of Samuel and Catherine (Bear) Diller, both Mennonites of German-Swiss origin. The father was descended from Francis Tueller, who emigrated to America in 1754 and whose son Peter adopted the name Diller. Samuel Diller, one of a line of substantial farmers, counted upon Joseph to carry on the family occupation, and when the son showed a preference for academic pursuits the father withdrew his support.
Education
From the public schools Diller went successively to an academy at Greason, Pennsylvania, and to the Massachusetts State Normal School at Westfield, where his interest in geology was encouraged by Joseph G. Scott, a former pupil of Agassiz. He entered Harvard in 1877, became a pupil of Nathaniel Shaler, and graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School with the degree of B. S. in 1879. After a little further study at Harvard, he went to Heidelberg as holder of the Parker Fellowship. Here his most influential teacher was Rosenbusch, the eminent petrographer.
Career
Diller taught geology at the normal school from 1873 to 1877 and his first published writing was "Westfield during the Champlain Period" (American Journal of Science and Arts, April 1877). In 1881 he went as geologist with an archeological expedition to Assos, Mount Ida, and the Troad.
In 1883 Diller joined the United States Geological Survey, with which he was to remain for forty years, as assistant geologist from 1883 to 1888 and as geologist from 1888 to 1923. In that year, serving as assistant to Captain Clarence E. Dutton, he ascended Mt. Shasta, Lassen Peak, and other volcanoes of the Cascade Range, and visited Crater Lake, which was then little known. He gradually acquired a wider first-hand knowledge than any other geologist had of western Oregon and northern California, especially of the southern Cascades and the Klamath Mountains. In this wide field he dealt with various aspects of vulcanology, of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Tertiary stratigraphy, of structural geology, of physiography, and of economic geology. In his later years he contributed the chapters on chromic iron ore, asbestos, talc, and soapstone to the Mineral Resources of the United States (1882-1931). But petrography and vulcanism remained his leading interests. His early surveys of Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak were followed by a study of Crater Lake, and he became the leading supporter of the view, first propounded by Dutton and widely though not universally accepted, that the lake occupied a caldera formed by the collapse of an eruptive cone.
When Lassen Peak erupted in 1914, Diller was near at hand and promptly revisited that old volcano, regarding whose renewed activity he wrote several papers. Diller's contribution to geology did not include any broad theoretical generalizations. It consisted, rather, in a large and varied assortment of facts, gathered in the course of many years of field work done by standards as high as were consistent with the limited time allowed and with the small scale of the available topographic bases, and well coordinated in reports that as a rule were written promptly. This work has stood up well under the scrutiny of those who have restudied small parts of his field under more favorable conditions. Some of Diller's writings, because of their lucid style and the popular interest of their subjects, had many nonprofessional readers; among these were Mt. Shasta: A Typical Volcano (1895), "Crater Lake, Oregon" (1897), The Volcanic History of Lassen Peak (1918) and his contributions to "Guidebook of the Western United States" (1915). His more technical writings include "Geology of the Lassen Peak District" (1889); "The Geology and Petrology of Crater Lake National Park, " prepared in collaboration with Horace Bushnell Patton (1902); "Geology of the Taylorville Region, California" (1908). He also prepared, wholly or in part, geologic folios on the Lassen Peak, Redding, Coos Bay, Roseburg, and Riddle quadrangles.
Diller served as vice-president of the Geological Society of America - of which he was an original fellow - in 1907 and as vice-president of Section E of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914. He was associate editor of the American Journal of Science, 1896-1920.
Diller died in his seventy-ninth year and was buried at Plainfield, Pennsylvania.
Achievements
While his principal interest was in petrography, Diller was responsible for production of numerous geological maps, reconnaissance surveys and economic geologic studies. He is also remembered for his studies of Crater Lake and analysis of Tertiary peneplanation and regional uplift. Among his achievements were the production of six maps as part of the USGS Geologic Atlas Folio Series, in-depth reports on the evolution of Crater Lake and Lassen Peak, detailed descriptions of several mining districts, and the preparation of sets of hand specimens, thin sections and descriptions for colleges and universities.
Medals were awarded him by the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915.
