Something About Oregon's Crater Lake No Longer Makes Sense

#CraterLake #MountMazama #volcaniceruptions There is a lake in southern Oregon that looks as if somebody removed the top of a mountain and filled the hole with blue glass. At its deepest point, the water drops 1,943 feet, making it the deepest lake in the United States. No river feeds it. No stream carries water out. Rain and snow fill the enormous basin. But the mountain that once stood here did not slowly erode away. Around 7,700 years ago, a volcanic catastrophe destroyed its summit and caused the ground beneath it to collapse. And then comes the detail that makes this story extraordinary. The Klamath people preserved an account of a tremendous battle involving the mountain, fire, shaking earth, and a mountain that ultimately collapsed. Geologists reconstructed a catastrophe from the physical evidence thousands of years later. Their explanations are different, but the overlap raises a remarkable question: how did an ancient oral tradition preserve a connection to an event that transformed an entire landscape? Sources : Contradiction to deliver: An oral account that lines up with the geology. Check this one: my sources don't say scientists once dismissed the legend, so don't claim it. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/volcanoes/traditional-knowledge-of-prehistoric-eruptions.htm https://home.nps.gov/crla/planyourvisit/upload/History-508.pdf https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/crater-lake/science/climactic-eruption-mount-mazama-formed-crater-lake