Sidas Cone is a
cinder cone
A cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent. The pyroclastic fragments are formed by explosive eruptions o ...
on the
Big Raven Plateau
The Big Raven Plateau is a volcanic plateau, lava plateau in northern British Columbia, Canada, located west of Mount Edziza in Mount Edziza Provincial Park. It is part of the Tahltan Highland, which is the southwestern sub-region of the Stikine P ...
at the northern end of
Mount Edziza Provincial Park
Mount Edziza Provincial Park is a provincial park in Cassiar Land District of northern British Columbia, Canada. It was established on 27 July 1972 to protect the Mount Edziza volcanic complex and the surrounding Tahltan Highland.
Geography
The p ...
in
British Columbia, Canada. Its name, meaning "cut oneself with a knife" in the
Tahltan language, is descriptive of the breach that has cut the cone into two symmetrical halves.
See also
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Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
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Volcanism of Canada
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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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Volcanism of Western Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, greenstone belts, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common volcanic ...
References
External links
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Mount Edziza volcanic complex
Cinder cones of British Columbia
Holocene volcanoes
Monogenetic volcanoes
One-thousanders of British Columbia
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