Redcloud Cliff - Prominent Geological Features of Crater Lake National Park

 

Located near the center of the eastern Crater Lake caldera rim, Redcloud Cliff takes its name from the reddish-yellow tuff or tuffaceous dacite that underlies it's principle flow. [Cloud Cap Dacite Flow, The Geology and Petrography of Crater Lake National Park (1902)] Redcloud Cliff is a dacite flow overlain by pumice and glacial till and underlain by an older dacite flow. Beneath the older dacite flow lie thick deposits of pumice and welded tuff, and then a succession of andesite flows....[Inter-andesitic Dacite Pumice on the Caldera Walls, The Geology of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (1942) by Howell Williams]

Redcloud Cliff Cliff dominates this view of the east caldera wall, Crater Lake National Park, Scientific Investigations Map 2832, Sheet 4 of 4, Geologic Map of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon (2008), by Charles R. Bacon

1. Applegate Peak 2. Bald Crater 3. Cloudcap 4. Crater Lake Caldera 5. Crater Peak 6. Desert Cone 7. Devil's Backbone 8. Dutton Cliff 9. Eagle Crags 10. Garfield Peak 11. Godfrey Glen 12. Grouse Hill 13. Hillman Peak 14. Kerr Notch 15. Llao Rock 16. Llao's Hallway 17. Maklaks Crater 18. Mazama Rock 19. Mount Scott 20. Palisades 21. Phantom Ship 22. The Pinnacles 23. Pumice Castle 24. Pumice Desert 25. Pumice Point 26.  Red Cone 27. Redcloud Cliff 28. Rugged Crest Scoria Cone Scott Bluff Sentinel Rock 29. Skell Head 30. Sun Notch 31. Timber Crater 32. Union Peak 33. Watchman 34. Williams Crater 35. Wineglass 36. Wizard Island Note: the numbers associated with each feature name above correspond to their place on the Custom Google Map below

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