Aspen Butte

Infobox Mountain
Name = Aspen Butte
Photo =
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Elevation = convert|8215|ft|m cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=NZ1060
title = NGS Data Sheet
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ]
Location = Klamath County, Oregon, USA
Range = Cascade Range
Prominence = convert|3088|ft|m|0 [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2468
title = Aspen Butte
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ]
Coordinates = coord|42.3154167|-122.0875164|format=dms|region:US_type:mountain
Topographic
USGS Aspen Lake
Type = Shield volcano
Volcanic_Arc/Belt = Cascade Volcanic Arc
Age =
Last eruption =
First ascent =
Easiest route = trail

Aspen Butte is a steep-sided shield volcano in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon. It is located convert|15|mi|km south of Pelican Butte and convert|15|mi|km southeast of Mount McLoughlin. It rises over convert|4000|ft|m above the nearby shore of Upper Klamath Lake. Ice Age glaciers carved three large cirques into the north and northeast flanks of the mountain removing most of the original summit area including any evidence of a crater. The summit is now the high point along the curving ridge which bounds the southern edge of the cirques above steep cliffs.

Aspen Butte is the highest of four overlapping shield volcanoes within the Mountain Lakes Wilderness all of which have been carved to varying degrees by glaciers. The other volcanoes are convert|7979|ft|m|adj=on Mount Harriman, [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2466
title = Mount Harriman
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ] [ cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=NZ1059
title = NGS Data Sheet for Mount Harriman
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ] convert|7785|ft|m|adj=on Crater Mountain and convert|7741|ft|m|adj=on Greylock Mountain. Another peak, convert|7882|ft|m|adj=on Mount Carmine, [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2467
title = Mount Carmine
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ] which lies just over convert|1|mi|km to the north of Aspen Butte, is actually not a separate volcano but the highest remnant of the north flank of the Aspen Butte volcano separated from it by two glacial cirques. Little Aspen Butte, a convert|7235|ft|m|adj=on satellite cone, rises on the southern flanks of the main volcano separated from it by a convert|6556|ft|m|adj=on pass.

References

* cite book
last = Harris
first = Stephen L.
title = Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes (3rd ed.)
publisher = Mountain Press Publishing Company
date = 2005
isbn = 0-87842-511-X
* cite book
last = Wood
first = Charles A.
coauthors= Jürgen Kienle, eds.
title = Volcanoes of North America
publisher = Cambridge University Press
date = 1990
isbn = 0-521-43811-X
* cite book
last = Carver
first = Gary Allen
title = Glacial Geology of the Mountain Lakes Wilderness and Adjacent Parts of the Cascade Range Oregon
publisher = Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington
date = 1972