Pemberton Volcanic Belt Explained

The Pemberton Volcanic Belt is an eroded Oligocene-Miocene volcanic belt at a low angle near the Mount Meager massif, British Columbia, Canada. The Garibaldi and Pemberton volcanic belts appear to merge into a single belt, although the Pemberton is older than the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. The Pemberton Volcanic Belt is one of the geological formations comprising the Canadian Cascade Arc. It formed as a result of subduction of the former Farallon Plate.

Features

Features within the Pemberton Belt include:

• Mount Barr Plutonic Complex
  • • • • Mount Barr Chilliwack batholith Slesse Mountain
• Chipmunk Mountain 50.5805°N -122.9324°W
• Coquihalla Mountain 49.525°N -121.06°W
• Crevasse Crag
• Franklin Glacier Complex
• Salal Creek Pluton
• Silverthrone Caldera

See also

• Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
• Geology of the Pacific Northwest
• Cascade Volcanoes
• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Western Canada

References

• Canada Volcanoes and Volcanics USGS