Errata/Addendum for Rainier Roadside geology by Pringle

Errata/Addendum for Roadside geology of Mount Rainier National Park and vicinity, Washington Div. of Geology and Earth Resources Information Circular 107, by Patrick Pringle

updated August 10, 2009

Preface, p. iii: I forgot to thank Gene Kiver for contributing information on the summit ice caves including the photo used in Fig. 39 on p. 41. Also Barry Voight reviewed a portion of the text.

p. 8 typo. Figure 6 caption: In the third from the last sentence it should say "...this stream..." not "...this steam..."

p. 9 typo: "The Cascades volcanic arc has been active for "at least 37 m.y." [not 27 m.y., as stated in the book].

Fig. 8 (p. 10): The top of Pyramid Peak (elev. 6937 ft) is located about 1/2 in up and to the right of where the leader points.

Fig. 14 (p. 18): We inadvertently left out the west Rainier seismic zone (WRSZ) on this figure. However, the WRSZ is shown on Fig. 3 on p. 4 and on Fig. 43, on p. 44.

p. 31 under "Off to an effusive start—Mount Rainier's lavas of 500 to 400 ka": USGS Geologist Tom Sisson provides a new date for the voluminous pumice deposit on Sourdough Ridge which was originally dated at ~ 380 ka has been revised to ~ 200 ka based on consist Ur-Pb dates on Zircons (Thomas W. Sisson, USGS, written commun., May 13, 2009).

p. 32 under "Another period of accelerated volcanism—Mount Rainier from 280 to 190 ka": USGS Geologist Tom Sisson also notes that a revised date for that pumice and its correlative deposit on Ketron Island noted in Walsh and others (2003) is about 165 ka. (Thomas W. Sisson, USGS, written commun., May 13, 2009)

Fig. 33 caption. after “…reached the Nisqually River”, add “…and that the Osceola Mudflow and Paradise lahars flowed farther than depicted here. The areal extents of the Round Pass Mudflow and Reflection Lakes lahar, both large clay-rich flows, are not shown.”

Fig. A-3. This crude map of the Tanwax-Ohop valley flood(s) grossly exaggerates the width of the area inundated. Unfortunately an updated map on a lidar base was misplaced; a replacement is in preparation.

Fig. A-6. The Miocene andesite shown in the photo is at La Grande Dam overlook, not Alder Dam overlook.

Fig. A-21. Crystal Mountain shown above Rampart Ridge should be Copper Mountain.

Fig. B-16, p. 73: The leader pointing to the Clear Fork Dacite Flow should extend almost a quarter of an inch (~8 mm) farther down to the flat surface that dips gently to the right.

Fig. D-2 typo. The caption should say “southeast-dipping beds…” (in a future edit of this picture, the farthest right arrow should be changed so that it points to the actual dip slope (which dips to the right in this image) and the other two arrows should be moved slightly so that it’s clear they are pointing to the dip slope and not the scarp slope.

Fig. E-10, p. 101; Added information: Steamboat Prow is the pyramidal peak to the right of Emmons Glacier; Inter Glacier sits on upper flank of Steamboat Prow and Winthrop Glacier is above and to the right of the Steamboat Prow; Russell Cliffs (thinly bedded flows dipping to the north) are beyond the Winthrop Glacier.

Fig. F-21, p. 114: The platy jointing alluded to is not easily visible in this photo.

Fig. H-12, p. 128: The first sentence of the caption should say, “Tumac Mountain shield volcano.” The last portion of the second sentence should be changed to say, “…a crater is hidden in the trees on the west flank of the summit cinder cone.”

Fig. H-24, p. 134: Quaternary Tieton Andesite is the uppermost flow unit shown on the horizon to the far right.

Fig. M-3, p. 156 typo: The third sentence of the caption should say, "The buried trees shown in Fig. M-4 were about 150 ft..."

Leg N. Mi 26.7 [add to end of note] Quiemuth Peak, the highest point in Thurston County at 2922 ft is visible on the horizon at about 11:00 as you descend down the hill. The peak was named in 1993 for the brother of Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe. Quiemuth was slain in Governor Isaac Stevens' house in Olympia in 1856 (see http://stories.washingtonhistory.org/leschi/leschitrial/murder.htm ). The mountain is composed of andesite flows of the Eocene Northcraft Formation.

Rich Ambeau, Peter Stein, and others have helped out by spotting typos and errors. Dave Shipley of the Thurston County Historic Commission provided the information about Quiemuth Peak. My thanks to them!