Armadillo Peak is a 7.5-million-year-old
caldera
A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is ...
, located about 3 km north of
Bourgeaux Creek and northeast of
Raspberry Pass,
British Columbia,
Canada. It is south of
Mount Edziza and is overlapped by the
Ice Peak
Ice Peak is a stratovolcano, located west of Tatogga and south of Mount Edziza, British Columbia, Canada. It overlaps the 7.5-million-year-old Armadillo Peak. It lies on a large volcanic plateau, which is made of basaltic lava flows from the ...
central volcano, which was formed during the early
Pleistocene. Its
caldera
A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is ...
is largely destroyed by
glaciers. It is part of the
Mount Edziza volcanic complex, which is made of
basaltic
lava flows.
See also
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Cascade Volcanoes
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List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes
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Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
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Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
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Volcanology of Canada
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Volcanology of Western Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface. Lava may be eru ...
References
Volcanoes of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Calderas of British Columbia
Stikine Country
Miocene calderas
Central volcanoes
Neogene British Columbia
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