The Bell-Irving volcanic district is a volcanic field in the upper

Bell-Irving River The Bell-Irving River is a tributary of the Nass River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It originates in the Sacred Headwaters region, and flows about south to the Nass River.Length calculated in Google Earth using the path tool. It cours ...

watershed of northern British Columbia, Canada. It is considered part of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, consisting of 14 volcanic centres. They comprise pillow lava and/or

volcaniclastic rock Volcaniclastics are geologic materials composed of broken fragments (clasts) of volcanic rock. These encompass all clastic volcanic materials, regardless of what process fragmented the rock, how it was subsequently transported, what environment it ...

s, which were possibly emplaced by alpine glaciovolcanic eruptions during the Pleistocene. The volcanic deposits were discovered between 1992 and 2004 but remained undescribed until 2006.

Occurrences

The Bell-Irving volcanic district includes the following: *Adzich volcanic centre *Owl Creek South volcanic deposits *Owl Creek North volcanic deposits *Rochester Creek Southwest volcanic centre *Rochester Creek Southeast volcanic centre *Upper Rochester Creek volcanic deposits *Rochester Creek Northeast-South volcanic deposits *Rochester Creek Northeast-North volcanic deposits *Bell-Irving River East South volcanic deposit *Bell-Irving River East North volcanic deposit *Bell-Irving River volcanic centre *Bell-Irving Northeast volcanic deposits *Icefield Ridge volcanic deposit *Craven Lake volcanic centre

References

Pleistocene volcanism Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province Volcanic fields of Canada Pleistocene British Columbia {{Northern Cordilleran volcanoes