Category:Volcanoes of British Columbia

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Canada has examples of almost every type of volcano found on earth. Most of Canada's volcanoes are located in British Columbia. Most of them have erupted during the pleistocene, holocene, and others have the potential to erupt in the near future. British Columbia has stratovolcanoes, calderas, cinder cones, shield volcanoes,maars and tuyas. Eve Cone is a young, well preserved cinder cone that formed around 700 B.C. in Mount Edziza Provincial Park. Although Mount Edziza last erupted over 4 million years ago, volcanic activity as recently as 1300 years ago has made about 30 cinder cones. The most recent volcanic eruption in Canada, was probably at the Iskut-Unuk River in 1904. Mount Meager is a dormant volcano, which erupted about 2,350 years ago that created a huge explosive eruption about the size of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, dumping ash as far away as southern Alberta. Mount Garibaldi, which had a Pelean eruption around 50,000 years ago. Renewed volcanism in the Garibaldi area would pose a serious threat to the local communities of Whistler and Squamish. Ruby Mountain is a small stratovolcano comprising a series of lava flows, airfall deposits, and volcanic breccia. Mount Silverthrone, is an eroded caldera complex in the northern Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. it's 9,400 ft (2,860 m) which is possibly the tallest volcano in Canada. Most of the calderas eruptions occurred during the last ice age and the products have since been heavily eroded, but young lava flows have erupted in post-glacial times and flowed down the Machmell River valley to the west.