Cinder Cone

Canada / British Columbia / Whistler /
 mountain, volcano

Cinder Cone is a pyroclastic cone that has a small crater on the west side of the Helm Glacier in Garibaldi Provincial Park. Cinder Cone is surrounded by cinder flats and its crater is filled with melt water during the summer. Cinder Cone gets eroded easily by melt water during the spring, washing the pyroclastics into the Valley of Desolation. Cinder Cone produced a 9 km long lava flow during the early Holocene.

Elevation: 1,910 metres (6,266 feet)
Type: Pyroclastic cone
Age of rock: Pleistocene
Last eruption: Holocene
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Coordinates:   49°58'16"N   123°0'33"W
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