Mount Cayley

Mount Cayley
Mount Cayley, view from the east
height	2377  m
location	British Columbia ( Canada )
Mountains	Pacific Ranges ( Coast Mountains )
Coordinates	50 ° 7 ′ 13 ″  N , 123 ° 17 ′ 26 ″  W Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 13 ″  N , 123 ° 17 ′ 26 ″  W
Type	Stratovolcano
First ascent	1928

Mount Cayley is an inactive stratovolcano in British Columbia in southwestern Canada . The volcano belongs to the Pacific Ranges within the Coast Mountains . It is located in the Mount Cayley volcanic field and belongs to the Garibaldi volcanic belt at the northern end of the cascade volcanic arc . It was named after a mountaineer from the Alpine Club of Canada who died shortly before the first ascent of the summit in 1928.

Although it was last 200,000 years ago, it remains potentially dangerous to humans. It shows some seismic activity and has been hit by landslides on the western flank . Due to the high temperature difference below the surface of up to 10 Kelvin per 100 meters, it is also of interest for geothermal research.

Its summit rises 2377 meters above sea level and belongs to the Pacific Ranges in the Coast Mountains . Despite this not too extreme altitude and a relatively mild climate, its east side is occupied by a larger glacier ice field, the Powder Mountain Icefield , which strongly isolates the mountain. The area around Mount Cayley has only been mapped once in the 1980s and remains difficult to access for hikers and mountaineers.

See also

• List of mountains in Canada
• List of volcanoes in Canada

Web links

Commons : Mount Cayley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Cayley Vulkanfeld in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
• Canada Volcanoes and Volcanics ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Cascades Volcano Observatory, United States Geological Survey, Vancouver (English)
• Mount Cayley . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
• Mount Cayley . In: Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia . (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Charles A. Wood, Jürgen Kienle: Volcanoes of North America , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1992, ISBN 978-0-521-43811-7 , p. 142.