The Stikine Volcanic Belt (also called the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province). This large area of volcanism stretches from just north of Prince Rupert, into the Yukon Territory and the Alaska border. It is the most active volcanic region in Canada, containing more than 100 volcanoes, 3 of which erupted in the last few hundred years (2 witnessed by people). These volcanoes formed due to extensional cracking of the crust in response to the Pacific Ocean plate dragging northward along the edge of the North American plate, on its way to the Aleution subduction zone. This belt includes the volcanoes Volcano Mtn., Mt. Edziza, Level Mtn., and the extremely youthful Tseax Cone (240 years), Lava Fork (360 years) and Ruby Mtn. (103 years).
Groups & features within the Stikine Volcanic Belt | |
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Hoodoo Mountain | Hoodoo Mountain |
Lava Fork | IIskut-unuk River Cones |
Iskut River | IIskut-unuk River Cones |
Volcano Mountain | Fort Selkirk Volcanic Field |
Tseax Cone | Tseax River Cones |
Mount Edziza | Mount Edziza |
Volcanoes within the Stikine Volcanic Belt | |
Ibex Mountain Cone | Alligator Lake |
Alligator Lake | Alligator Lake |
Miles Canyon | Alligator Lake |
Swinton Creek | Dark Mountain |
Dark Mountain | Dark Mountain |
Dark Mountain North | Dark Mountain |
Dark Mountain South | Dark Mountain |
Dark Mountain West | Dark Mountain |
Dome Mountain | Dark Mountain |
Enid Creek Cone | Dark Mountain |
Little Eagle Cone | Dark Mountain |
Heart Peak | Heart Peaks |
Ash Mountain | High Tuya Lake |
Caribou Tuya | High Tuya Lake |
Mathews Tuya | High Tuya Lake |
Peak 2166 | High Tuya Lake |
Southern Tuya | High Tuya Lake |
The Thumb | Hogum Range |
Icefall Cone | Ice peak |
Ridge Cone | Ice peak |
Cache Hill | Ice peak |
Camp Hill | Ice peak |
Ice Peak | Ice peak |
The Neck | Ice peak |
Cottonwood Peak | Iverson Creek |
Iverson Creek West | Iverson Creek |
Iverson Creek | Iverson Creek |
Peak 2050 | Iverson Creek |
Toozaza Peak | Iverson Creek |
Tuya #1 | Iverson Creek |
Chakatah Creek Peak | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Kawdy Mountain | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Meehaz Mountain | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Nuthinaw Mountain | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Tutsingale Mountain | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Isspah Butte/Metah Mt. | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Kawdy Mt. South | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Metahag Creek N-E | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Metahag Creek N-W | Kawdy Metah Volcanic Field |
Castle Rock | Klastline Group |
Klinkit Creek Peak | Klinkit Lake |
Klinkit Lake Peak | Klinkit Lake |
Nome Lake South | Klinkit Lake |
Level Mountain North | Level Mountain Range |
Level Mountain S-E | Level Mountain Range |
Level Mountain S-W | Level Mountain Range |
Meszah Peak | Level Mountain Range |
Level Mountain | Level Mountain Range |
Maitland Volcano | Maitland |
Rancheria River North | Rancheria River |
Rancheria River South | Rancheria River |
Ruby Mountain | Ruby Mountain |
Volcanic Creek Cone | Ruby Mountain |
Anderson Bay | Ruby Mountain |
Chikoida Mountain | Ruby Mountain |
Hirschfeld/Line Lake | Ruby Mountain |
Llangorse Mountain S | Ruby Mountain |
Llangorse Mountain N | Ruby Mountain |
Llangorse Mountain W | Ruby Mountain |
Mount Sanford | Ruby Mountain |
Cocoa Cone | Snowshoe Lava Field |
Coffee Crater | Snowshoe Lava Field |
Kena Cone | Snowshoe Lava Field |
The Saucer | Snowshoe Lava Field |
Walkout Creek | Snowshoe Lava Field |
Sheep Track Pumice | Snowshoe Lava Field |
Tennena Cone | Snowshoe Lava Field |
Nahta Cone | Spectrum Range |
The Ash Pit | Spectrum Range |
Mess Lake | Spectrum Range |
Outcast Hill | Spectrum Range |
Thaw Hill | Spectrum Range |
Source Hill | Spectrum Range |
Tadekho Hill | Spectrum Range |
Wetalth Ridge | Spectrum Range |
Exile Hill | Spectrum Range |
Spectrum Dome | Spectrum Range |
Little Iskut | Spectrum Range |
Yeda Peak | Spectrum Range |
Gabrielse Cone | Tuya Lake Lava Fields |
Mount Josephine | Tuya Lake Lava Fields |
Peak 1924 | Tuya Lake Lava Fields |
Tuya Butte | Tuya Lake Lava Fields |
Aiyansh River | Tseax River Cones |
Cracker Creek | Cracker Creek |
Pelly Formation | Pelly Formation |
Watson Lake | Watson Lake Volcanoes |
Wolverine Formation | Wolverine Formation |
Alice Arm A | Alice Arm |
Alice Arm B | Alice Arm |
Crow Lagoon | Crow Lagoon |
Mount Prindle | Mount Prindle |
Forty Mile | Mount Prindle |
Sixty Mile | Mount Prindle |
Moose Creek | Mount Prindle |