Canada · Complex volcano
Mount Meager
Meager
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Elevation
- 2680m
- Last eruption
- -410
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Country
- Canada
- Region
- North America / Garibaldi Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 2680m
- Coordinates
- 50.630, -123.500
- Last eruption
- -410
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Dacite
Geological summary
Mount Meager volcanic complex, of Pliocene-to-Holocene age, forms a dissected andesitic-to-rhyodacitic stratovolcano with multiple eroded summit lava domes and volcanic necks.
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From Wikipedia
Mount Meager 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.
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Eruption history
1 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 1
- Uncertain eruptions
- 0
- Span of confirmed record
- 410 BCE (±200 yrs) – 410 BCE
- Largest confirmed eruption
- VEI 5 (410 BCE)
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 0
Summary (VEI over time)
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Detailed timeline
- 410 BCE (±200 yrs)VEI 5Geological estimate410 BCE – end unknownNE flank of Plinth Peak
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