Iskut volcanic field

Iskut-Unuk River Cones
Highest point
Elevation	1,880 m (6,170 ft)
Geography
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Parent range	Boundary Ranges (Coast Mountains)
Geology
Rock age	Pleistocene-to-Holocene
Mountain type	Volcanic field
Volcanic arc/belt	Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Last eruption	1800 (?)

The Iskut-Unuk River Cones are a group of eight small basaltic centres at the southern end of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, in western North America. The lava flows date back 70,000 years, but the subaerial vents produced cinder cones and lava flows that were probably all active between about 9,000 and a few hundred years ago. The last lava flows were erupted from The Volcano about 150 years ago. Iskut Canyon Cone produced at least 10 thick lava flows which initially dammed the Iskut River.

Volcanoes

• Cinder Mountain
• Cone Glacier Volcano
• Iskut Canyon Cone
• King Creek Cone
• The Volcano
• Seconed Canyon Cone
• Snippaker Creek Cone
• Tom MacKay Creek Cone

The name of these in the Tlingit language is Seikhulé, referring to the mountains not being flooded during Aangalakhú (the Great Flood) and they were one of the high peaks used as a refuge during that time.

See also

• List of volcanoes in Canada
• Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Western Canada

References

• "Iskut-Unuk River Cones". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
• Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes: Iskut River
• Alaska Volcano Observatory: Iskut-Unuk River Cones