Castle Rock (volcano)

{{short description|Volcanic mountain in British Columbia, Canada}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Castle Rock | image = | image_caption = | elevation_m = 1862 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 55 | prominence_ref = | location = [[Stikine Country]], [[British Columbia|British Columbia, Canada]] | district = [[Cassiar Land District]] | range = [[Klastline Plateau]] (south-central [[Stikine Plateau]]) | range_coordinates = | map = Canada British Columbia | map_caption = Location in British Columbia | label_position = right | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 8 | mapframe-caption = Interactive map of Castle Rock | coordinates = {{coord|57|50|24.0|N|130|12|29.2|W|type:mountain_region:CA-BC_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref= | topo_maker = [[National Topographic System|NTS]] | topo_map = {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|104|G|16}} | type = [[Volcanic plug]] | age = [[Pleistocene]] | volcanic_zone = [[Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province]] | last_eruption = [[Pleistocene]] | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }}

'''Castle Rock''' is a [[volcanic plug]] located {{convert|13|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} west of [[Iskut, British Columbia|Iskut]] and {{convert|8|km|mi|abbr=on|sigfig=1}} northwest of Tuktsayda Mountain in [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Castle Rock is part of the [[Pacific Ring of Fire]] that includes over 160 active volcanoes and is in the Klastline Group of the [[Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province]] and last erupted in the [[Pleistocene]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/volcano_e.php?id=svb_crk_063 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716024746/http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/volcano_e.php?id=svb_crk_063 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |title=Castle Rock |publisher=Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes |access-date=October 10, 2007}}</ref>

Castle Rock is one of ten major Canadian volcanoes with recent [[Seismology|seismic activity]], the others being the [[Mount Edziza volcanic complex]], [[Mount Cayley]], [[Hoodoo Mountain]], [[The Volcano (British Columbia)|The Volcano]], [[Crow Lagoon]], [[Silverthrone Mountain]], the [[Mount Meager massif]], the [[Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field]] and [[Mount Garibaldi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bcminerals.ca/pdf/CanadianVolcanoes-CH2005.pdf|title=Volcanoes of Canada|access-date=October 10, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528051236/http://www.bcminerals.ca/pdf/CanadianVolcanoes-CH2005.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2006}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province]] *[[List of volcanoes in Canada]] *[[List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes]] *[[Volcanism in Canada]] *[[Volcanism of Western Canada]] *[[Volcanic history of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province]]

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===Further reading=== *{{cite bcgnis|id=3403|title=Castle Rock}}

[[Category:Volcanic plugs of British Columbia]] [[Category:One-thousanders of British Columbia]] [[Category:Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province]] [[Category:Stikine Country]] [[Category:Stikine Plateau]] [[Category:Pleistocene volcanoes]] [[Category:Pleistocene British Columbia]]