Mahood Falls

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Mahood Falls is a waterfall in Wells Gray Provincial Park located just below the outlet of [Mahood Lake]] and northeast of 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada. It is named after James Adams Mahood, a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway survey who investigated this areaa as a potential route for the transcontinental railway in the 1870s and who explored most of BC to 1891.^[1]

[edit] Formation

Like many other waterfalls in Wells Gray Provincial Park, Mahood Falls owes its foundation to the deposits of volcanic rock in the Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field. Layer upon layer of fresh lava created flat areas, over which enormous floods flowed during the last ice age. These floods shaped the upright cliff in the lava flows over which the river now flows.

[edit] See also

• Helmcken Falls
• Spahats Falls
• Canim Falls

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