Atlin Volcanic Field

Coordinates: 59°41′N 133°19′W / 59.68°N 133.32°W

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Atlin Volcanic Field
Atlin Volcanic Field British Columbia, Canada
Highest point
Elevation	1,880 m (6,170 ft)^[1]
Listing	Northern Cordilleran volcanoes
Coordinates	59°41′N 133°19′W / 59.68°N 133.32°W / 59.68; -133.32^[1]
Geography
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Parent range	Teslin Plateau (southern Yukon Plateau)
Geology
Rock age	Holocene
Mountain type	Cinder cones
Volcanic region	Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Last eruption	Unknown, possible eruptions in 1898.^[1]

The Atlin Volcanic Field, also called the Llangorse Volcanic Field and the Surprise Lake Volcanic Field, is a group of late-Pleistocene to Holocene cinder cones that lies on the Teslin Plateau east of Atlin Lake, Canada. The largest volcanic feature is the 1880-m-high Ruby Mountain which has been partially dissected by Pleistocene and post-Wisconsin glaciation. Two basaltic cinder cones at the heads of Cracker Creek and Volcanic Creek lie within glacially dissected U-shaped valleys and may be of postglacial age.

November 8, 1898, eruption

A Yukon newspaper reported in 1898 that an eruption was occurring near Atlin about 80 km (50 mi) south of Gladys Lake. Miners working in the area reportedly were able to work during the dark nights, due to the glow of the eruption. The article also reported that a group of people were going down from the Yukon to investigate the eruption, but no further reports were apparently made. Several recent studies, including a summary by Edwards et al. (2003) published by the Geological Survey of Canada, have determined that Ruby Mountain was definitely not the site of a historic eruption,^[2] nor were the Cracker Creek or Volcanic Creek cones.

One possible explanation for the story is that placer miners found gold-bearing gravels beneath an ancient lava flow at the base of Ruby Mountain, and were actively tunneling under the old lava flow to mine the gravels. As its name suggests, Ruby Mountain is ruby-colored due to the scoriaceous tephra that covers much of its summit and the summer sun shining off of the ruby-red flanks of the volcano may have started the rumour. There have been no evidence of the eruption found in the region and the 19th-century report is considered uncertain.^[1]

Volcanoes

Volcanoes within the field include:

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Atlin Volcanic Field". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
^ Edwards, B. R.; Russell, J. K.; Anderson, R. G.; Harder, M. (2003). "Overview of Neogene to Recent volcanism in the Atlin volcanic district, Northern Cordilleran province, northwestern British Columbia". Geol. Surv. Canada, Current Res. 2003-A8: 1–6.

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 Keda Cone Klastline Cone Mess Lake Cone Moraine Cone Ne Ch'e Ddhawa Nahta Cone Outcast Hill Prindle Volcano Ridge Cone Ruby Mountain Second Canyon Cone Sidas Cone Sleet Cone Snippaker Creek Cone Source Hill Storm Cone Thaw Hill The Saucer The Volcano Triplex Cones 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 Maitland Volcano Spectrum Range Volcano Vent West Vent
Volcanic fields	Atlin Bell-Irving Desolation Fort Selkirk Mess Lake Snowshoe Tuya
Stratovolcanoes	Armadillo Peak Hoodoo Mountain Ice Peak Mount Edziza
Volcanic plugs	Castle Rock The Neck The Thumb

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