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Geology and History Summary for Mount Rainier
Volcanism occurs at Mount Rainier and other Cascades arc volcanoes because of the subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate off the western coast of North America.
The Eruption History of Mount Rainier
Timeline of eruptions at Mount Rainier.
Glaciers Help to Shape Mount Rainier
The modern glaciers that grace the slopes of Mount Rainier are much smaller descendants of the vast ice masses that repeatedly overwhelmed the Cascade Range during Pleistocene time.