Castle Rock (volcano)

Castle Rock is a volcanic plug located west of Iskut and northwest of Tuktsayda Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Castle Rock is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes and is in the Klastline Group of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province and last erupted in the Pleistocene.

Castle Rock is one of ten major Canadian volcanoes with recent seismic activity, the others being the Mount Edziza volcanic complex, Mount Cayley, Hoodoo Mountain, The Volcano, Crow Lagoon, Mount Silverthrone, the Mount Meager massif, the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Mount Garibaldi.

See also

Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

List of volcanoes in Canada

List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes

Volcanism in Canada

Volcanism of Western Canada

Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

References

Further reading

Volcanic plugs of British Columbia

One-thousanders of British Columbia

Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province

Stikine Country

Stikine Plateau

Pleistocene volcanoes

Pleistocene British Columbia