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Kawdy Mountain
Highest point
Elevation1,936 m (6,352 ft)
Prominence523 m (1,716 ft)
Coordinates 58°53′N 131°14′W / 58.88°N 131.23°W / 58.88; -131.23
Geography
Location British Columbia, Canada
District Cassiar Land District
Parent range Kawdy Plateau (northern Stikine Plateau)
Topo map NTS  104J14 Kawdy Creek
Geology
Age of rock Pleistocene
Mountain type Subglacial mound
Volcanic arc/ belt Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Last eruption Pleistocene

Kawdy Mountain is a subglacial mound on the Kawdy Plateau, the northernmost sub-plateau of the Stikine Plateau in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It consists of nearly horizontal beds of basaltic lava, capping outward dipping beds of fragmental volcanic rocks and last erupted in Pleistocene. Kawdy Mountain is one of many basaltic volcanic features of the Stikine Volcanic Belt, which is forming because the North American tectonic plate is stretching slightly as it moves to the west.

See also

References

  • "Kawdy Mountain". BC Geographical Names.