Mount Lloyd George is a peak in

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, for ...

, Canada, rising to a prominence of above Lloyd George Pass. The mountain is located NE of Haworth Lake in

Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park is a provincial park Ischigualasto Provincial Park A provincial park (or territorial park) is a park administered by one of the provinces of a country, as opposed to a national park. They are similar to stat ...

. Its line parent is Mount Sylvia, away. It is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Geology

Lying in the

Muskwa Ranges The Muskwa Ranges are a group of mountain ranges in northern British Columbia, Canada. They are part of the Northern Rockies section of the Rocky Mountains and are bounded on their west by the Rocky Mountain Trench and on their east by the R ...

, Mount Lloyd George is a castellated

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms w ...

and

quartzite Quartzite is a hard, non- foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.Essentials of Geology, 3rd Edition, Stephen Marshak, p 182 Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to tec ...

peak. The

diamictite Diamictite (; from Ancient Greek ''δια'' (dia-): ''through'' and ''µεικτός'' (meiktós): ''mixed'') is a type of lithified sedimentary rock that consists of nonsorted to poorly sorted terrigenous sediment containing particles that r ...

sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late

Precambrian The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of th ...

and probably have a glacial-marine origin. The age of the diamictite is not certain. It may be associated with either the Toby or the Vreeland formations of the

North American Cordillera The North American Cordillera, sometimes also called the Western Cordillera of North America, the Western Cordillera or the Pacific Cordillera, is the North American portion of the American Cordillera, the mountain chain system (cordillera) alon ...

Ice field

The Lloyd George Icefield in 1998 covered over . There is a major concentration of glaciers around the mountain. The icefield is about from north to south and from east to west, bounded by the

Warneford River Warneford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Warneford (1720–1773), British clergyman and scholar *Reginald Warneford (1891–1915), Royal Naval Air Service officer *Samuel Wilson Warneford Samuel Wilson Warneford (1 ...

and the

Tuchodi River The Tuchodi River is a stream in the Northern Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia, Canada. The river flows through the Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park in a northeasterly direction to the Muskwa River. Its name comes from Slave ...

. The small Llanberis Glacier flows west from the icefield to Hawarth Lake. The larger Kwadacha and Lloyd George glaciers drain the icefield to the east.

Name

The mountain was named by

Paul Leland Haworth Paul Leland Haworth (1876–1936) was an American author, educator, explorer and politician, born at West Newton, Indiana. Books * ''The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Presidential Election of 1876'' (1906* ''The Path of Glory'' (1911) * ''America in Ferm ...

after

David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. He was a Liberal Party (United Kingdom), Liberal Party politician from Wales, known for lea ...

, the British Prime Minister towards the end of

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

. In the words of Raymond M. Patterson,

References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd George Two-thousanders of British Columbia Canadian Rockies Peace River Land District