Felsite Peak is an eroded
volcanic outcrop in the
Wrangell Volcanic Field
The Wrangell Volcanic Field is a volcanic field stretching from eastern Alaska in the United States to the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada. The field includes the four highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Bona, Mount Blackburn, ...
,
Yukon Territory
Yukon () is a territory of Canada, bordering British Columbia to the south, the Northwest Territories to the east, the Beaufort Sea to the north, and the U.S. state of Alaska to the west. It is Canada’s westernmost territory and the smallest ...
, Canada, located 54 km south of
Silver City, 8 km southwest of
Snowshoe Peak and 30 km east of
Pinnacle Peak.
Felsite Peak was named after
Felsite Creek and has a
triple summit
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on the east side of the
Disappointment Glacier and at the head of
Felsite Creek.
It formed as a result of melting of the
crust, due to
subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. Where one tectonic plate converges with a second p ...
of the
Pacific Plate beneath the
North American Plate and last erupted during the
Pliocene
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The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes.
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, that includes over 160 active volcanoes.
See also
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Wrangell Volcanic Field
The Wrangell Volcanic Field is a volcanic field stretching from eastern Alaska in the United States to the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada. The field includes the four highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Bona, Mount Blackburn, ...
*
List of volcanoes in Canada
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Volcanism in Canada
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Notes
External links
Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes*
Volcanoes of Yukon
Subduction volcanoes
Pliocene volcanoes
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