Exile Hill

Volcanic hill in British Columbia, Canada

57°22′42.0″N 130°49′30.0″W / 57.378333°N 130.825000°W / 57.378333; -130.825000GeographyLocationBritish Columbia, CanadaDistrictCassiar Land DistrictParent rangeSpectrum RangeTopo mapNTS 104G7 Mess LakeGeologyAge of rockPlioceneMountain typeCinder coneVolcanic arc/beltNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province Last eruptionPliocene

Exile Hill is an isolated hill in the Spectrum Range of northern British Columbia, Canada, located southeast of Mess Lake. It lies at the southern end of Mount Edziza Provincial Park.

History

Exile Hill was named on 2 January 1980 by the Geological Survey of Canada after the Wetalth people, a group of people who lived here in times past, outcast or exiled from the Tahltans.^[1]

Geology

Exile Hill is a volcanic feature associated with the Spectrum Range volcanic complex which in turn form part of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. It is a cinder cone that formed in the Pliocene period.^[2]

References

^ "Exile Hill". BC Geographical Names.
^ "Exile Hill". Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04.

Volcanoes of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

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Mountains	Ash Cache Camp Caribou Cartoona Castle Rock Chikoida Cronin Dark Edziza Eve Exile Gabrielse Grizzly Gunanoot Howson Ice Icefall Isspah Kana Kawdy Keda Klastline Level Maitland Mathews Meehaz Meszah Moraine Nahlin Nahta Nanook Nuthinaw Outcast Pharaoh Pillow Ridge Sezill Shedin Shelagyote Sidas Sleet Source South Spatsizi Sphinx Storm Tadeda Tadekho Tennena Thomlinson Thudaka Toozaza Triangle Triplex Tseax Tsekone Tutsingale Tuya Twin Volcano West Wetalth Williams Yeda
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