Meszah Peak is a
volcanic cone located north of
Telegraph Creek and southwest of
Zus Mountain in
British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest peak of the
Level Mountain Range
The Level Mountain Range is a small but prominent mountain range occupying the broad summit of Level Mountain in northern British Columbia, Canada. Located between the Tuya River in the east and the Sheslay River in the west, it represents a h ...
, a cluster of bare peaks on the summit of the massive
Level Mountain shield volcano
A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid (low viscosity) lava, which travels farther and forms thinner flows than the more v ...
, which forms the most voluminous and most persistent eruptive centre in the
Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province.
See also
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List of volcanoes in Canada
List of volcanoes in Canada is an incomplete list of volcanoes found in Mainland Canada, in the Canadian islands and in Canadian waters. All but one province, Prince Edward Island, have at least one volcano.
Alberta
British Columbia
Ne ...
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List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes
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Volcanology of Western Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface. Lava may be eru ...
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Geography of British Columbia
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Geology of the Pacific Northwest
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Heart Peaks
Heart Peaks, originally known as the Heart Mountains, is a mountain massif in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is northwest of the small community of Telegraph Creek and just southwest of Callison Ranch. With a maximum elev ...
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Atsutla Range
The Atsutla Range is a granitic mountain range on the Kawdy Plateau in northern British Columbia, Canada. The Atsutla Range lies south of the Yukon border in between Teslin Lake and the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, roughly north-northeast of Dease L ...
References
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Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes: Meszah Peak
External links
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Meszah Peakin the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
Volcanoes of British Columbia
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Level Mountain
Cassiar Country
Pleistocene volcanoes
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