Tow Hill
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| Tow Hill | |
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 Tow Hill on Graham Island |
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| Elevation | 125 m (410 ft) |
| Location | Graham Island, British Columbia, Canada |
| Range | Queen Charlotte Mountains |
| Prominence | 118 m (387 ft) |
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| Topo map | NTS 103J/04 |
| Type | Volcanic plug |
| Age of rock | 2 million years |
| Listing | List of volcanoes in Canada |
Tow Hill is a large isolated volcanic hill located 21 km (13 mi) east of Masset on the north end of the Naikoon Peninsula of northeast Graham Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. It is associated with the Queen Charlotte Mountains which in turn form part of the Insular Mountains,[1] although it is not physically part of the range, and is separated from mountainous parts of Graham Island by expanses of forested flatland-marsh.
Tow Hill lies in Naikoon Provincial Park and is geologically a large Pliocene volcanic plug which solidified about 2 million years ago into faceted columnar-jointed basalt columns.
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