West Vent

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West Vent
Elevation	1,452 m (4,764 ft)
Location
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Range	Kawdy Plateau (northern Stikine Plateau
Geology
Type	Shield volcano
Age of rock	Holocene
Last eruption	Holocene

West Vent is one of the three small shield volcanoes located in the Tuya Volcanic Field of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, British Columbia, Canada. It is Holocene in age and stands in relief above the surrounding area north of the Nazcha Creek and comprise the West Tuya lava field.

v t e Volcanoes of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

Cinder cones	Cache Hill Camp Hill Cinder Cliff Cinder Mountain Cocoa Crater Coffee Crater Cone Glacier Volcano Cracker Creek Cone Eve Cone Exile Hill Fort Selkirk Vent Gabrielse Cone Icefall Cone Ibex Mountain Iskut Canyon Cone Kana Cone Kena Cone Klastline Cone Mess Lake Cone Moraine Cone Ne Ch'e Ddhawa Nahta Cone Outcast Hill Prindle Volcano Ridge Cone Ruby Mountain Seconed Canyon Cone Sidas Cone Sleet Cone Snippaker Creek Cone Source Hill Storm Cone Thaw Hill The Saucer The Volcano Triplex Cone Tseax Cone Twin Cone Volcanic Creek Cone Volcano Mountain Walkout Creek Cone Watson Lake Cone Williams Cone

Subglacial volcanoes	Ash Mountain Chakatah Creek Peak Caribou Tuya Dark Mountain Dome Mountain Enid Creek Cone Isspah Butte Kawdy Mountain King Creek Cone Klinkit Creek Peak Klinkit Lake Peak Little Bear Mountain Little Eagle Cone Mathews Tuya Meehaz Mountain Mount Josephine Nuthinaw Mountain Pillow Ridge South Tuya Tennena Cone Tadekho Hill Toozaza Peak Tom MacKay Creek Cone Tsekone Ridge Tutsingale Mountain Tuya Butte Wetalth Ridge

Lava domes	Cartoona Peak Glacier Dome IGC Centre Nanook Dome Pharaoh Dome Sezill Volcano Sphinx Dome The Pyramid Triangle Dome

Shield volcanoes	Grizzly Butte Heart Peaks Level Mountain Range Maitland Volcano Spectrum Range Volcano Vent West Vent

Volcanic fields	Atlin Desolation Fort Selkirk Mess Lake Snowshoe Tuya

Stratovolcanoes	Armadillo Peak Hoodoo Mountain Ice Peak Mount Edziza

Volcanic plugs	Castle Rock The Neck The Thumb

v t e Interior Mountains

Ranges	Atna Atsutla Axelgold Babine Bait Beady Bornite Bulkley Butler Cariboo Heart Cassiar Chikamin Connelly Cormier Driftwood Eaglenest Espee Finlay Fishing Germansen Hazelton Heart Hogem Horseranch Howson Ingenika Kasalka Kechika Kispiox Klappan Lay Level Mountain McConnell Metsantan Mitchell Morice Nass O.K. Omineca Osilinka Oweegee Pattullo Rocher Déboulé Ruby Russel Samuel Black Sibola Sicintine Sifton Sikanni Sitlika Skeena Skree Slamgeesh Spectrum Stikine Strata Swannell Tahtsa Takla Tatlatui Telkwa Tenakihi Three Sisters Thudaka Tochquonyalla Tucha Tuya Vital Whitesail Wolverine Wrede

Mountains	Ash Cache Camp Caribou Cartoona Castle Rock Chikoida Cronin Dark Edziza Eve Exile Gabrielse Grizzly Gunanoot Howson Ice Icefall Isspah Kana Kawdy Kena Klastline Maitland Mathews Meehaz Meszah Moraine Nahlin Nahta Nanook Nuthinaw Outcast Perseus Pharaoh Pillow Ridge Sezill Shedin Shelagyote Sidas Sleet Source South Spatsizi Spectrum Sphinx Storm Tadeda Tadekho Tennena Thomlinson Thudaka Toozaza Triangle Triplex Tseax Tsekone Tutsingale Tuya Twin Volcano West Wetalth Williams Yeda

Parks	Atlin Babine Lake Marine Babine Mountains Babine River Corridor Bear Glacier Boya Lake Bulkley Junction Call Lake Chase Denetiah Driftwood Canyon Dune Za Keyih Ed Bird-Estella Finlay-Russel Iskut River Hot Springs Kinaskan Lake Little Andrews Bay Marine Meziadin Lake Mount Blanchet Mount Edziza Nation Lakes Netalzul Meadows Nilkitkwa Lake Ningunsaw Rainbow Alley Ross Lake Rubyrock Lake Seeley Lake Seven Sisters Spatsizi Headwaters Spatsizi Plateau Sustut Swan Lake/Kispiox River Tatlatui Todagin South Slope Tuya Mountains Tweedsmuir North Tweedsmuir South Tyhee Lake Wistaria

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West Vent

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