Mount Lloyd George is a peak in
British Columbia
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, Canada, rising to a prominence of above Lloyd George Pass. The mountain is located NE of
Haworth Lake in
Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park.
Its line parent is
Mount Sylvia, away. It is part of the
Northern Rocky Mountains.
Geology
Lying in the
Muskwa Ranges, Mount Lloyd George is a castellated
limestone
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and
quartzite peak.
The
diamictite sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late
Precambrian and probably have a glacial-marine origin.
The age of the diamictite is not certain. It may be associated with either the Toby or the Vreeland formations of the
North American Cordillera.
Ice field
The Lloyd George Icefield in 1998 covered over .
There is a major concentration of glaciers around the mountain. The icefield is about from north to south and from east to west, bounded by the
Warneford River and the
Tuchodi River
The Tuchodi River is a stream in the Northern Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia, Canada.
The river flows through the Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park in a northeasterly direction to the Muskwa River.
Its name comes from Slavey p ...
.
The small Llanberis Glacier flows west from the icefield to Hawarth Lake. The larger Kwadacha and Lloyd George glaciers drain the icefield to the east.
Name
The mountain was named by
Paul Leland Haworth after
David Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister towards the end of
World War I
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. In the words of
Raymond M. Patterson,
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Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Muskwa Ranges
Peace River Land District