Kawdy Mountain
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Kawdy Mountain | |
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Elevation | 1,936 metres (6,352 feet) |
Location | British Columbia, Canada |
Range | Cassiar Mountains |
Prominence | 523 m |
Coordinates | |
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.