Talk:Mount Silverthrone

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[edit] Name issue

The proper name for this mountain is Silverthrone Mountain

Also the location is wrong, both of he above have it at 51°31'00" N 126°07'00" W (although I think that they are rounding to minutes at BCNGIS). Also is there some confusion with the "Silverthrone Mountain" in Alaska? Tsylos 07:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia convention, as explained in the edit comment of the addition I just made as to the gazetted name, is to go with the more commonly-used form. eg. Fairweather Mountain officially is generally referred to as Mount Fairweather, and as far as I know the redirects work that way in that case; there are others; Cheam Peak/Mount Cheam, Dickson Peak/Mount Dickson, and I could go on. Didn't know there was a Silverthrone Mountain in Alaska, or if there was an entry on in it bivouac, rather, I've forgotten it (I created most of the Alaskan entries in Bivouac); but on a lot of old maps, e.g. the old provincial highway maps dating back to the '50s, and much still in use (can't cite you an edition just now), it's definitely Mount Silverthrone; similarly Good Hope Mountain, officially, is Mount Good Hope in the vernacular, more often than not. Others stay the same; Taseko Mountain, for instance. Anyway, the infobox should probably have an alt-name field, and also a name status field or designator for which of the names present is the officially-gazetted one, if not the title's.Skookum1 10:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I did not know that was the convention. Anyway I added a disabiguation page (for the one in Alaska). I also updated the coordinates to reflect the BCNGIS entry which I asume is correct. The infobox currently does not have an alt-name field Tsylos 18:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

The Alaskan one is "Mount Silverthrone" (see www.topozone.com USGS index search), so amended the disambig page accordingly.Skookum1 20:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confused

Is Mount Silverthrone the name of two things in the same area? According to the website here, there's a lava dome called Silverthrone Mountain which is the volcano with a height of 2,865 m (9,400 ft) or 3,160 m (10,367 ft) and the caldera is called Silverthrone Mountain or Silverthrone here and here. If they are two different volcanoes in the same area there should be two different articles about them and not one article mentioning the two of them. I have noticed this issue with other articles such as Mount Cayley; some parts of the article seem to mention it as a volcanic field and not a single volcano. Black Tusk 18:32, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Basemap, which contains the provincial gazette, has only Silverthrone Mountain and the Silverthrone Glacier.Skookum1 (talk) 19:16, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
BCGNIS also has only the two; skiing guides and such are notoriously inaccurate about geography/geology btw.Skookum1 (talk) 19:18, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
A lava dome and a caldera are clearly two different things. The lack of photos of Silverthrone Mountain on the internet doesn't help either, since the volcano could easily contain a caldera at its summit like Mount Edziza. However, a 20 km (12 mi) wide caldera would obviously be too large for a summit caldera since most summit calderas are only a few kilometers wide; Edziza's caldera is only 2 km wide. If there's an independent caldera in the Silverthrone area, it's possible it could be unnamed. The National Resources Canada website here has Silverthrone Caldera but no Silverthrone Mountain. Black Tusk 20:38, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Problem solved. Silverthrone Mountain appears to be a lava dome on the northeast edge of the caldera. I should have read the websites I linked above a lot better. Black Tusk 23:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)