Tuya Range
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| Tuya Range | |
| Range | |
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Province | British Columbia |
| Part of | Stikine Ranges |
| Highest point | Ash Mountain |
| - elevation | 2,115 m (6,939 ft) |
| Geology | Tuyas |
| Orogeny | Volcanism |
| Period | Pleistocene |
The Tuya Range is a range of tuyas, located in the Stikine Ranges of the Cassiar Mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia, near its border with the Yukon Territory.
[edit] Boundaries and landforms
The northward side of the range, on both east and west there, is drained by tributaries of the Cottonwood River; the southern and southwestern flank is formed by Tuya Lake and its tributary, Butte Creek, while the southeast flank is formed by the Cottonwood River and its tributaries (the Cottonwood is a tributary of the Dease River, the Tuya of the Stikine). The range has an area of 777 sq km and includes the tuyas: Tuya Butte, Mathews Tuya, Caribou Tuya, South Tuya and Ash Mountain.
Ash Mountain 2,115 metres (6,939 ft) is the highest tuya in the range. The nearby Kawdy Plateau, to the southwest of Kawdy Mountain, is near-entirely formed by the spectacular shield volcano of the Level Mountain Range.
Tuya Butte 1,685 metres (5,528 ft) was the first tuya analyzed in the geological literature, and its name has since become standard worldwide among volcanologists in referring to and writing about tuyas. The Tuya Mountains Provincial Park was recently established to protect this unusual landscape, which lies north of Tuya Lake and south of the Jennings River near the boundary with the Yukon Territory.
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