Mount Fee
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| Mount Fee | |
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 Mount Fee as seen from its north side |
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| Elevation | 2,162 m (7,093 ft) |
| Location | British Columbia, Canada |
| Range | Pacific Ranges |
| Prominence | 312 m (1,024 ft) |
| Coordinates | |
| Topo map | NTS 92J/03 |
| Type | Volcanic neck |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Cascade Volcanic Arc Garibaldi Volcanic Belt |
| Age of rock | Pliocene |
| Last eruption | Pleistocene |
| First ascent | 1963 P. Thompson; M. Wisnicki; R. Woodsworth |
| Easiest route | rock/ice climb |
Mount Fee is a volcanic neck in the Pacific Northwest region of Canada. It is located 13 km south of Callaghan Lake and 21 km west of Whistler. It is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. The neck of Mount Fee is two sharp blades of volcanic rock at the head of Brandywine Creek. The south tower is the highest. Many mistakenly believe it to be part of the Cascade Range. It is a member of the Garibaldi segment of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, but not of the Cascade Range.
[edit] Geology
Mount Fee is a member of the chain of volcanic peaks that run from southwestern British Columbia to northern California. The peaks formed in the past 35 million years as the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Explorer Plate to its west have been subducting under the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone.
Pyroclastic rocks exist at numerous locations around Mount Fee, suggesting that the ridge could have been surrounded by a layer of pyroclastics that has now been mostly removed by erosion. The emplacement of the central intrusive spine was probably the final event that took place at Mount Fee, which last erupted during the Pleistocene. There are no known quench features at Mount Fee, but the absence of underlying till suggests that the volcanic activity at Mount Fee is preglacial.
[edit] See also
- Cascade Volcanoes
- Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
- List of volcanoes in Canada
- Cascade Range
- Cascadia subduction zone
- Volcanoes of Canada
[edit] External links
- Mount Fee at the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
- Aerial view of Mount Fee
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