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Marble Canyon (British Columbia)
Marble Canyon is in the south-central Interior of British Columbia, a few kilometres east of the Fraser River and the community of Pavilion, midway between the towns of Lillooet and Cache Creek. The canyon stems from a collapsed karst formation. Nomenclature The canyon's name comes from the brilliant limestone of its walls. The bedrock is microcrystalline limestone (sedimentary rock) rather than marble (metamorphic rock). The native name of the canyon in the Shuswap language is, when referring to the whole, ''sxmeltám'', possibly referring to "Indian doctors", while the name for the area of Crown and Turquoise Lakes and the provincial campground and adjoining south wall is ''getsgátsp'', of unknown meaning. In addition to the steep walls rising from the lake's southeastern end, there is an eroded pinnacle known as Chimney Rock, or in a translation of ''K'lpalekw'', the Secwepemc ( Shuswap) name for it, Coyote's Penis. Geography The north wall is over 965 m (3150 ft) high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looking Up At Entrance To Marble Canyon - Panoramio
Looking is the act of intentionally focusing visual perception on someone or something, for the purpose of obtaining information, and possibly to convey interest or another sentiment. A large number of troponyms exist to describe variations of looking at things, with prominent examples including the verbs "stare, gaze, gape, gawp, gawk, goggle, glare, glimpse, glance, peek, peep, peer, squint, leer, gloat, and ogle".Anne Poch Higueras and Isabel Verdaguer Clavera, "The rise of new meanings: A historical journey through English ways of ''looking at''", in Javier E. Díaz Vera, ed., ''A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics'', Volume 141 (2002), p. 563-572. Additional terms with nuanced meanings include viewing, Madeline Harrison Caviness, ''Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy'' (2001), p. 18. watching,John Mowitt, ''Sounds: The Ambient Humanities'' (2015), p. 3. eyeing,Charles John Smi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clear Range
The Clear Range is a small mountain range located in the angle of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers in south-central British Columbia. It has a small subdivision just northeast of that confluence named the Scarped Range. The Clear Range totals 16,270 km² (6,280 mi²) and is 75 km (47 mi) north to south and 35 km (22 mi) east to west (at its widest point). The Clear Range and its northward neighbour the Marble Range are both subranges of the Pavilion Range. It and the neighbouring Marble Range line the east bank of the Fraser River north of the town of Lytton, British Columbia. The Clear Range extends as far as the town of Pavilion, British Columbia, Pavilion and is bounded by the south wall of Marble Canyon (British Columbia), Marble Canyon on the north. The southeast flank of the Clear Range is the Thompson River between Ashcroft, British Columbia, Ashcroft and Lytton, British Columbia, Lytton, while to its northeast are the Cornwall Hills, Cornwall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillooet Country
The Lillooet Country, also referred to as the Lillooet District, is a region spanning from the central Fraser Canyon town of Lillooet, British Columbia, Lillooet west to the valley of the Lillooet River, and including the valleys in between, in the British Columbia Interior, Southern Interior of British Columbia. Like other historical BC regions, it is sometimes referred to simply as The Lillooet or even Lillooet, (i.e. without meaning the town of the same name). The meaning of the name has changed since over time. During the gold rush and into the later 19th Century, the term Lillooet District was synonymous with the Lillooet Mining District and also the Lillooet Land District, which spanned east of the Fraser all the way to the North Thompson River. As development of that region proceeded the sense of "Lillooet District" for that area was abandoned, except in terms of reference to the Land District or the similarly shaped electoral district. The original Lillooet Country, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canyons And Gorges Of British Columbia
A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as sediments are removed downstream. A river bed will gradually reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water into which the river drains. The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering. A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or the Andes. Usually, a river or stream carves out such splits between mountains. Examples of mountain-type c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Hat Creek 1
Upper may refer to: * Shoe#Shoe construction, Shoe upper or ''vamp'', the part of a shoe on the top of the foot * Stimulant, drugs which induce temporary improvements in either mental or physical function or both * ''Upper'', the original film title for the 2013 found footage film ''The Upper Footage'' See also {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Hat Creek, British Columbia
Upper Hat Creek is a rural locality and ranching community in British Columbia, Canada, located roughly midway between the towns of Cache Creek, British Columbia, Cache Creek and Lillooet, British Columbia, Lillooet, located near the headwaters of Hat Creek (British Columbia), Hat Creek. Comprising the upper basin of Hat Creek (British Columbia), Hat Creek the area is home to some of the oldest ranches in British Columbia. At the area's northeastern edge, near Marble Canyon (Canada), Marble Canyon, large lignite deposits have spurred interest since first discovered by Prospecting, prospectors during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and are the basis of the aborted Hat Creek coal-thermal proposal. During the gold rush, a trail from Foster Bar led through Upper Hat Creek to the Bonaparte River and then northwards via the Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail, Brigade Trail. References See also *Blue Earth Lake Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Thompson Country Lillooet Countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hat Creek (British Columbia)
Hat Creek is a tributary of the Bonaparte River in British Columbia, Canada, joining that stream at Carquile, British Columbia, Carquile, which is also known as Lower Hat Creek, British Columbia, Lower Hat Creek and is the site of the Hat Creek Ranch heritage museum and visitor centre. The Hat Creek basin includes a broad upper plateau area encircled by the gentle but high summits of the Clear Range and, to its east, the Cornwall Hills; this area is known as Upper Hat Creek, British Columbia, Upper Hat Creek. Adjacent to Upper Hat Creek is the gateway to Marble Canyon (Canada), Marble Canyon and a rancherie of the Pavilion First Nation, who are both a St'at'imc and Secwepemc people. During the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes an important trail northwards from the lower Fraser Canyon led from Foster Bar on the Fraser via Laluwissen Creek into Upper Hat Creek, then via the creek to the Bonaparte River. The economy of the basin is ranching-based and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marble Canyon 3
Marble Canyon 3, properly and most commonly referred to as Marble Canyon Indian Reserve No. 3, is an Indian reserve of the Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation (Pavilion Indian Band), located at the southeast end of Marble Canyon (British Columbia), Marble Canyon, adjacent to British Columbia provincial highway 99, BC Highway 99 just northwest of the Upper Hat Creek, British Columbia, Upper Hat Creek junction, which is about midway between the towns of Lillooet, British Columbia, Lillooet and Cache Creek, British Columbia, Cache Creek. The main reserve of the Tx'kw'ylaxw/Pavilion Band is Pavilion 1, Pavilion Indian Reserve No. 1, located at the community of Pavilion, British Columbia, Pavilion, which lies at the northwest end of Marble Canyon, which is to say at the opening of the valley of Pavilion Creek into the Fraser Canyon. The reserve has a small rancherie, or residential area, and a rodeo grounds used for the Marble Canyon Rodeo. Many band members work at the lime (material), lime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marble Canyon Provincial Park
Marble Canyon Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, established in 1956 to protect Marble Canyon, a limestone formation at the south end of the Marble Range. In 2001 the park was expanded to 355 hectares to include all of Pavilion Lake due to the presence of microbialites, a type of stromatolite important to research into astrobiology and other fields, and in 2010, it was further expanded to 2,544 hectares. The park is also important in the culture of the Tskway'laxw people in whose territory it is located, and concealed in the side canyons of the gorge there are important pictograph sites. Within the park and along Pavilion Lake at its farther end from the main part of the canyon is Chimney Rock, the Secwepemc'tsn name for which, K'lpalekw, means " Coyote's Penis", and is an important spiritual site. A waterfall into Crown Lake, at the park's campground, is famous among ice-climbers as "Icy BC" and the walls of Marble Canyon are a major draw for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildrose At Marble Canyon - Panoramio
__NOTOC__ Wild rose is the common name of certain flowering shrubs: *Any wild members of the Genus ''Rosa'' (see list of Rosa species, List of ''Rosa'' species), or, more especially: ** ''Rosa acicularis'', "wild rose", a rose species which occurs in Asia, Europe, and North America ** ''Rosa arkansana'', "wild prairie rose", a rose species native to a large area of central North America ** ''Rosa canina'', "wild rose" or "dog rose", a climbing rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia ** ''Rosa virginiana'', "Virginia rose", a rose species native to North America **''Rosa woodsii'', "wild rose" of the sagebrush steppe in the Great Basin of North America *Genus ''Diplolaena'': **''Diplolaena grandiflora'', an Australian flowering shrub Wild Rose or Wildrose may also refer to: Places ;Canada * Wild Rose, Edmonton, neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta * Wild Rose (electoral district) * Wild Rose, Saskatchewan ;Wildrose, North Dakota * Wild Rose, Wisconsin, village * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
