Cinder Cone is a
cinder cone with a small
crater on the west side of the
Helm Glacier Helm Glacier () is a glacier, long, flowing north to enter Lowery Glacier just west of the Fazekas Hills, in the Queen Elizabeth Range of Antarctica. It was named for Arthur S. Helm, former Secretary of the Ross Sea Committee, by the New Zealan ...
in
Garibaldi Provincial Park
Garibaldi Provincial Park, also called Garibaldi Park, is a wilderness park located on the coastal mainland of British Columbia, Canada, 70 kilometres (43.5 mi) north of Vancouver. It was established in 1920 and named a Class A Provincial ...
in British Columbia, Canada. Cinder Cone is surrounded by cinder flats and its crater is filled with
meltwater during the summer. Cinder Cone is eroded easily by meltwater during the spring, washing the
pyroclastics into the
Valley of Desolation. Cinder Cone produced a long
lava flow during the early
Holocene
The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene togeth ...
.
See also
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List of Cascade volcanoes
This is a list of Cascade volcanoes, i.e. volcanoes formed as a result of subduction along the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The volcanoes are listed from north to south, by province or state: British Columbi ...
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List of volcanoes of Canada
List of volcanoes in Canada is an incomplete list of volcanoes found in Mainland Canada, in the Canadian islands and in Canadian waters. All but one province, Prince Edward Island, have at least one volcano.
Alberta
British Columbia
B ...
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Volcanism of Western Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, greenstone belts, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common v ...
References
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File:Cinder Flats 1.jpg
File:Cinder Cone 1.jpg
File:Cinder Cone and Helm Glacier.jpg, Cinder Cone and Helm Glacier
Cinder cones of British Columbia
Subduction volcanoes
Volcanic crater lakes
Holocene volcanoes
Inactive volcanoes
Polygenetic volcanoes
Garibaldi Lake volcanic field
One-thousanders of British Columbia
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