Kawdy Mountain

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Kawdy Mountain
Elevation 1,936 metres (6,352 feet)
Location British Columbia, Canada
Range Cassiar Mountains
Prominence 523 m
Coordinates 58°88′N, 131°23′W
Type Tuya
Volcanic arc/belt Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Age of rock Pleistocene
Last eruption Pleistocene

Kawdy Mountain is the highest tuya in the Cassiar Mountains and on the Kawdy Plateau in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It consists of nearly horizontal beds of basaltic lava, capping outward dipping beds of fragmental volcanic rocks and last erupted sometime during the Pleistocene. Kawdy Mountain is one of many basaltic volcanic features of the Stikine Volcanic Belt, which is forming because the North American tectonic plate is stretching slightly as it moves to the west.

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