Caribou Tuya

Caribou Tuya
Caribou Tuya Location of Caribou Tuya in northern British Columbia
Highest point
Elevation	1,770 m (5,810 ft)
Coordinates	59°14′11″N 130°33′45″W / 59.23639°N 130.56250°W / 59.23639; -130.56250Coordinates: 59°14′11″N 130°33′45″W / 59.23639°N 130.56250°W / 59.23639; -130.56250
Geography
Location	British Columbia, Canada
District	Cassiar Land District
Parent range	Tuya Range
Topo map	NTS 104O2
Geology
Mountain type	Subglacial mound
Volcanic arc/belt	Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Last eruption	Pleistocene

Caribou Tuya is a basaltic subglacial mound in far northwestern British Columbia that began eruptive activity under glacial ice during the Fraser glaciation (25 to 10 ka). Like Ash Mountain and South Tuya, sections of the subglacial mound reveal a consistent stratigraphic progression from pillow lavas to hyaloclastite deposits from the base upward. Locally the sections are capped by subaerial basaltic lava flows. Samples of the glassy pillow basalts and hyaloclastites along with crystalline basalt flows were collected at Caribou Tuya. The volcano is believed to have formed and last erupted during the Pleistocene Epoch.^[1]

See also[]

• List of volcanoes in Canada
• List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes
• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Western Canada
• Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

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