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Mount_Meager_(British_Columbia) Latitude and Longitude:
50°37′54″N 123°30′15″W / 50.63167°N 123.50417°W / 50.63167; -123.50417
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Not to be confused with the Mount Meager massif, which is also commonly referred to as Mount Meager.
Mount Meager
Southeast aspect
Highest point
Elevation2,650 m (8,690 ft) [1]
Prominence220 m (720 ft) [1]
Listing Mountains of British Columbia
Coordinates 50°37′54″N 123°30′15″W / 50.63167°N 123.50417°W / 50.63167; -123.50417 [2]
Geography
Mount Meager is located in British Columbia
Mount Meager
Mount Meager
District Lillooet Land District
Parent range Pacific Ranges
Topo map NTS  92J12 Mount Dalgleish
Geology
Volcanic arc/ belt Canadian Cascade Arc
Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
Last eruption Pleistocene age
Climbing
First ascent1931 N. Carter; A. Dalgleish; T. Fyles; M. Winram

Mount Meager (also known as The Cathedral, [2] or Q̓welq̓welústen in the St'at'imcets (Lillooet) language) is a mountain in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It represents the second highest peak of the Mount Meager massif, a group of coalescent stratovolcanoes in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. [3]

The mountain was the source of the 2010 Mount Meager landslide. On August 6, the southern 2,554 m (8,379 ft) peak of Meager collapsed in a series of major rockfalls. The rockfalls transformed into a large debris flow that dammed Meager Creek for about one day. The landslide dam was about 30 m (98 ft) high and impounded water in a temporary lake about 4 km (2.5 mi) long. The debris flow also crossed the Lillooet River downstream and wiped out a forestry road on the opposite bank of the Lillooet River. The response of emergency personnel, fearing a sudden failure of the dam on Meager Creek, was to direct residents on the Lillooet River floodplain, in the village of Pemberton 55 km (34 mi) downstream and in the Lil'wat community at Mount Currie to evacuate the area.[ citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Mount Meager". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. ^ a b "Mount Meager". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  3. ^ Roberti, Gioachino; Friele, Pierre; van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin; Ward, Brent; Clague, John J.; Perotti, Luigi; Giardino, Marco (2017). "Rheological evolution of the Mount Meager 2010 debris avalanche, southwestern British Columbia" (PDF). Geosphere. 13 (2). Geological Society of America: 368. doi: 10.1130/GES01389.1.


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