Earth:South Tuya

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South Tuya
Highest point
Elevation1,850 m (6,070 ft)
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] 59°12′31″N 130°30′19″W / 59.20861°N 130.50528°W / 59.20861; -130.50528
Geography
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
DistrictCassiar Land District
Parent rangeTuya Range
Geology
Age of rockPleistocene
Mountain typeTuya
Last eruptionPleistocene

South Tuya, also called Southern Tuya, is a tuya clustered around Tuya Lake in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province in British Columbia, Canada . The base of South Tuya comprises hyaloclastite and pillow lava indicating that the volcano formed beneath a large lake or beneath ice.[1]

See also

References

  1. James G. Moore; Catherine J. Hickson; Lewis C. Calk (1995-12-10). "Tholeiitic-alkalic transition at subglacial volcanoes, Tuya region, British Columbia, Canada". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 100 (B12): 24577–24592. doi:10.1029/95JB02509. Bibcode1995JGR...10024577M.