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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Fort Selkirk
Volcano Mountain is a cone within the Fort Selkirk volcanic field in the central Yukon Territory, near the junction of the Yukon and Pelly rivers, and is Canada's northernmost Holocene volcano. Volcano Mountain comprises a scoria cone and a series of lava flows that traveled to the NE and SW. Photo by Lionel Jackson (Geological Survey of Canada).
Volcano Number:
320010
Volcano Name:
Fort Selkirk
Country:
Canada
Volcano Type:
Volcanic field
Elevation:
1239m
Tectonic Setting:
Intraplate / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
6
Pop. within 10km:
6
Pop. within 30km:
6
Pop. within 100km:
491
Latitude:
62.93
Longitude:
-137.38
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The Fort Selkirk volcanic field near the junction of the Yukon and Pelly rivers in central Yukon is the northernmost Holocene volcanic field in Canada. It consists of a sequence of valley filling alkaline olivine basalt and basanitic lava flows succeeded by construction of three nephelinitic pyroclastic cones and lava flow aprons. The Ne Ch'e Ddhawa pyroclastic cone (Wootten's Cone) is composed primarily of hyaloclastite tuffs, breccias, and pillow breccias erupted subglacially during the late Pleistocene (Jackson, 1989). The youngest cone, Volcano Mountain, produced young nephelinitic lava flows that remain unvegetated and appear to be only a few hundred years old. However, dating of sediments in a lake impounded by the lava flows indicated that the youngest flows could not be younger than mid-Holocene and could be early Holocene or older (Jackson and Stevens, 1992).
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