Gabrielse Cone is a remarkably fresh, clearly postglacial
monogenetic cinder cone
A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent. The pyroclastic fragments are formed by explosive eruptions o ...
, located in the
Tuya Volcanic Field in
British Columbia,
Canada. It is about in diameter and has a central
crater
Crater may refer to:
Landforms
*Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
*Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ...
about deep. It is
Holocene in age and to its northeast appears to be breached with the remnants of a
lava flow
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 erupted at a volcano or through a fracture in the crust, on land or und ...
. The cone is near the headwaters of
Iverson Creek Iverson Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.
It flows about from its source on Butano Ridge in Pescadero Creek County Park
Pescadero Creek Park, located near Loma Mar, California, Loma Mar ...
.
Gabrielse Cone is named after
Hu Gabrielse
Hubert Gabrielse (born March 1, 1926) is a Canadian retired geologist who formerly worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. He devoted much of his more than 50 years in geosciences to regional geological mapping in the northern Cordillera of ...
, a Canadian geologist who first identified the cone.
See also
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List of volcanoes in 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
Ne ...
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List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes
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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 volcanic ...
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Toozaza Peak
Toozaza Peak is a tuya in the Stikine Ranges of the Cassiar Mountains in northern British Columbia, Canada, located in the Iverson Creek. Toozaza Peak is the summit of a north–south aligned ridge between the head of Toozaza Creek and the he ...
References
Cinder cones of British Columbia
Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Cassiar Country
Holocene volcanoes
Monogenetic volcanoes
Stikine Ranges
One-thousanders of British Columbia
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