Category talk:Volcanoes of British Columbia

Suggest subcat

Suggestion: the volcanic regions/fields be split off as a subcat, Atlin, Anahim, Wells Gray-Clearwater, Wrangell etc, and this category's main area is just for individual volcanic mountains/features? i.e. as opposed to areas of them; so Category:Volcanic areas of British Columbia or whatever the term would be is the kind of thing I mean.Skookum1 23:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree. The volcanic belts and fields should have there own category. Black Tusk 04:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I have made the subcat as Category:Volcanic areas of Canada, since there are other volcanic areas outside of British Columbia. Black Tusk 02:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Lava Fork/The Volcano

FYI Lava Fork is not the proper name of the volcano involved in the 1904 eruption; it is the name of the creek at teh location; the mountain is The Volcano (BCGNIS). Seems like it should be renamed, no? Also Mount Minto makes no mention of the Klondike-era eruption there; or that was believed to be Minto anyway, I'm not sure the eruption ws ever located, just seen in the sky....Skookum1 (talk) 14:45, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking about changing the article into a creek article but I haven't had much time, especially because I don't look into that area too much. I have herd of The Volcano but I couldn't find much infomation to create an article. When I create an article about The Volcano I guess I'll have to use the volcanological infomation called Lava Fork and create a link to The Volcano in that article, but I think there's more than one volcano in that area. --Black Tusk (talk) 17:23, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

There may be but Lava Fork is the name of a creek, not a volcano; The Volcano' is the volcano, or the recently active one anyway; nb it's not "Lava Fork Creek" either, but "Lava Fork" (same usage as the Clark Fork of the Columbia); The Volcano is a legitimate article title; and BCGNIS has it (search "BCGNIS Lava Fork" in google and then once you're on the name details page click on the "return all features within 5km proximity" and you'll find it).Skookum1 (talk) 17:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

BTW re other volcs in that area you might want to poke around Alaskan information databases.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I looked at the Alaska Volcano Observatory page here and it says: The flow in Lava Fork valley is probably the youngest in Canada. It issued from a vent near the crest of a ridge on the north side of the valley, where ropy pahoehoe lava is associated with irregular mounds of fire-fountain deposits, open lava tubes, and steep-walled lava troughs. No cone is present in the vent area, but thick deposits of loose tephra still cling to ledges on the surrounding granite peaks and form lenses within some of the adjacent glaciers. From the vent, at an elevation of ~1,200 m, the flows cascade down >1,000 m of steep granite cliffs to the broad valley of Lava Fork, where two small lakes are ponded above the flow. The Volcano has an elevation of 1656 m, making a possibly as the lava source, although it says there's no cone present in the vent area; must be just lava flows. BTW do you know if those photos are in the public doman? --Black Tusk (talk) 18:11, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

No, they're not - they're too new and not government photos (US govt photos are, depending on agency, usually PD). Open one of the images and you'll see the notice "used courtesy of the photographer, Please cite photographer when using these images". Grey area, maybe; try writing the photographer or the website and just ask. BTW searched for "Cicder Mountain", nothing in the official names database, though Spinnaker Mountain is there...somethng to look into is Tlingit stories of these eruptions, by the way.....Skookum1 (talk) 18:39, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

OK. Just wanted to know because the current photo appears to be from the site; the flickr user where I found the photo probably has the right to use the Creative Commons licence. I remember reading a Tlingit story about an eruption somewhere in the Yukon. It was the most recent eruption I think; Volcano Mountain maybe. --Black Tusk (talk) 19:27, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

[undent]The junction of the Pelly and Yukon Rivers is a long way from Tlingit territories, even from Inland Tlingit territories. It's more likely to be the Bennett Lake or Mt Minto-area volcanoes; Americans often fuzzify Canadian geography and there's only a few miles of BC between Skagway/Haines and the Yukon; "behind the mountains". The most recent activity is supposed to be Lava Fork, though whether that's The Volcano or other vents where I read that didn't say; 1904. The Atlin-area eruption was before that, go to the Atlin District article and follow the ref links for what little info there was on it. Spinnaker/Lava Flow/Unuk are more likely to show up in southern Tlingist, maybe in Nisga'a, legends; Heart Peaks/Level Plateau eet al among hte Taku Tlingit. I remember several such storeis in the course of reading Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles; I remember them as being nearly always connected to "Frog Woman" who like "Bear Mother" is one of the main figures in some local mythographies. I'd imagine there's a connection between the eruptions and disruptions local frog populations to explain why "Frog Woman and the Volcano" is a common myth-title/theme; note the old connection in Euro-lore between the salamander and the element of Fire.Skookum1 (talk) 20:50, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

I ment the most recent eruption in the Yukon. The 1904 Lava Fork eruption is uncertain per here, although there's another possible eruption in 1800 at the same site. And there's the Tseax eruption of course. There's an eruption story about Volcano Mountain per here. An eruption story about Edziza would be interesting as well, since most of the area is coverd by lava. --Black Tusk (talk) 22:23, 28 June 2008 (UTC)