Satah Mountain

Coordinates: 52°28′32.9″N 124°41′22.9″W / 52.475806°N 124.689694°W / 52.475806; -124.689694
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Satah Mountain
Mount Lion
Highest point
Elevation1,921 m (6,302 ft)
Prominence419 m (1,375 ft)
Coordinates52°28′32.9″N 124°41′22.9″W / 52.475806°N 124.689694°W / 52.475806; -124.689694
Geography
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Parent rangeChilcotin Plateau
Topo mapNTS 93C/07
Geology
Mountain typeCinder cone
Last eruptionUnknown

Satah Mountain is a cinder cone, located 35 km (22 mi) east-northeast of Nimpo Lake in central British Columbia, Canada. It areas to the south form a N-S-trending chain of cinder cones of Pleistocene and Holocene age. It lies on the Chilcotin Plateau.

Satah Mountain occupies the high point of the Satah Mountain volcanic field. This consists of a long ridge of trachytic lava domes and flows and basaltic and trachybasaltic cinder cones that extend south from the felsic Itcha Range volcanic complex.

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