Baldface Mountain

Baldface Mountain
Highest point
Elevation 1,798 m (5,899 ft)[1]
Prominence 208 m (682 ft)[1]
Coordinates 52°45′35″N 124°31′53″W / 52.75972°N 124.53139°W / 52.75972; -124.53139
Geography
Location British Columbia, Canada
Parent range Chilcotin Plateau
Topo map NTS 93C/15
Geology
Age of rock Pleistocene
Volcanic arc/belt Anahim Volcanic Belt

Baldface Mountain is a conical butte-like summit in the West-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is east of Itcha Lake and northeast of the community of Anahim Lake.[2]

This mountain is a volcanic cone consisting of trachyte and phonolite. Polygenetic in nature, it was active 2.52 to 2.37 million years ago.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Baldface Mountain". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  2. "Baldface Mountain". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  3. 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.
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