The Table

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The Table
The north face of Mount Garibaldi rises above The Table and Garibaldi Lake
Elevation	2,021 m (6,631 ft)
Location	Garibaldi Lake Volcanic Field, British Columbia, Canada
Range	Garibaldi Ranges, Cascade Volcanic Arc
Prominence	251 m (823 ft)
Coordinates	49°53′43″N, 123°00′47″W
Topo map	NTC 92G/14 Cheakamus River
Type	Tuya
Age of rock	Pleistocene
Last eruption	Pleistocene
First ascent	1916 Tom Fyles

The Table is a 2,021 m (6631 ft) high flow-dominated andesite tuya near Mount Garibaldi, British Columbia, Canada. It rises over 530 m (1750 ft) above the surface of Garibaldi Lake, which lies less than 1 km (0.6 mi) to the north. The Table is within the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, part of the chain of volcanic peaks that run from southwestern British Columbia to northern California caused by subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer Plate under the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. The Table is within the Garibaldi Lake Volcanic Field, a volcanic field located around Garibaldi Lake that was formed by a group of nine small andesitic stratovolcanoes and basaltic-andesite vents in the scenic Garibaldi Lake area immediately north of Mount Garibaldi was formed during the early Holocene.

1 Geology
2 See also
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] Geology

Canadian geologist Bill Mathews proposed in 1951 that The Table formed when magma intruded into and melted a vertical pipe in the overlying Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The partially molten mass of hornblende-phyric andesite cooled as a large block, with gravity flattening its upper surface. Horizontal columns occur at numerous locations along the periphery of the mass. The absence of glacial erosion of the tuya suggests that it erupted during the early Holocene, just prior to the disappearance of the ice sheet.

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[edit] References

Mathews, W. H. (1951). "The Table, a Flat-Topped Volcano in Southern British Columbia". American Journal of Science 249: 830–841.
Wood, Charles A.; Jürgen Kienle, eds. (1990). Volcanoes of North America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43811-X.
Harris, Stephen L. (2005). Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes (3rd ed.). Mountain Press Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87842-511-X.