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Olson Mountain (Jackson County, Oregon)

extinct shield volcano in Oregon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ130223688 ↗
Source-derived summary

Olson Mountain, located in Jackson County, Oregon in the US is an extinct shield volcano. It created the Table Rocks north of Medford, Oregon.

Geography

Olson Mountain is south of Prospect, Oregon, northeast of Medford, Oregon, northwest of other shield volcanoes such as Mount McLoughlin, Brown Mountain, Pelican Butte, and Rustler Peak, and east of Lost Creek Lake.

Geology

Upper and Lower Table Rock, two plateaus north of Medford, are lava flows that were created when Olson Mountain erupted. They were eroded when the Rogue River carved into the rock, causing the lava to collapse.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Olson Mountain (Jackson County, Oregon)” is extinct shield volcano in Oregon. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Olson, Mountain and Jackson, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 95-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Olson, Mountain and Jackson is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “extinct shield volcano in Oregon” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q130223688. Authority coordinates are 42.662, -122.536. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olson Mountain (Jackson County, Oregon)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.