Whitetop Mountain is a forested hill in the West-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is on the northwest side of junction of the Chilcotin River and Downton Creek.[3] Whitetop is a volcanic cone of the Chilcotin Plateau and Anahim Volcanic Belt.[4]
Whitetop Mountain | |
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Interactive map of Whitetop Mountain | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 1,525 m (5,003 ft)[1] |
Prominence | 208 m (682 ft)[1] |
Listing | Volcanoes of Canada |
Coordinates | 52°38′55″N 124°33′21″W / 52.64861°N 124.55583°W[2] |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Province | British Columbia |
District | Range 3 Coast Land District |
Parent range | Chilcotin Plateau |
Topo map | NTS 93C10 Downton Creek[2] |
Geology | |
Volcanic arc/belt | Anahim Volcanic Belt |
References
edit- ^ a b "Whitetop Mountain". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
- ^ a b "Whitetop Mountain". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
- ^ "Whitetop Mountain". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ Kuehn, Christian; Guest, Bernard; K. Russell, James; A. Benowitz, Jeff (2015). "The Satah Mountain and Baldface Mountain volcanic fields: Pleistocene hot spot volcanism in the Anahim Volcanic Belt, west-central British Columbia, Canada". Bulletin of Volcanology. Springer: 8.