Earth:Whitetop Mountain (British Columbia)

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Whitetop Mountain
Whitetop Mountain is located in British Columbia
Whitetop Mountain
Whitetop Mountain
Highest point
Elevation1,525 m (5,003 ft) [1]
Prominence208 m (682 ft) [1]
ListingVolcanoes of Canada
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] 52°38′55″N 124°33′21″W / 52.64861°N 124.55583°W / 52.64861; -124.55583[2]
Geography
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
DistrictRange 3 Coast Land District
Parent rangeChilcotin Plateau
Topo mapNTS Script error: No such module "Canada NTS".[2]
Geology
Volcanic arc/beltAnahim Volcanic Belt

Whitetop Mountain is a forested hill in the West-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is on the northwest side of junction of the Chilcotin River and Downton Creek.[3] Whitetop is a volcanic cone of the Chilcotin Plateau and Anahim Volcanic Belt.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Whitetop Mountain". http://www.bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=36732. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Whitetop Mountain". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique.php?id=JBNHK&output=xml. 
  3. "Whitetop Mountain". BC Geographical Names. https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/22054.html. Retrieved 2016-01-08. 
  4. Kuehn, Christian; Guest, Bernard; K. Russell, James; A. Benowitz, Jeff (2015). "The Satah Mountain and Baldface Mountain volcanic fields: Pleistocene hot spot volcanism in the Anahim Volcanic Belt, west-central British Columbia, Canada". Bulletin of Volcanology (Springer): 8.