South Tuya

59°12′31″N 130°30′19″W / 59.20861°N 130.50528°W / 59.20861; -130.50528GeographyLocationBritish Columbia, CanadaDistrictCassiar Land DistrictParent rangeTuya RangeGeologyAge of rockPleistoceneMountain typeTuyaLast eruptionPleistocene

South Tuya, also called Southern Tuya, is a tuya clustered around Tuya Lake in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province in British Columbia, Canada. The base of South Tuya comprises hyaloclastite and pillow lava indicating that the volcano formed beneath a large lake or beneath ice.[1]

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  1. ^ James G. Moore; Catherine J. Hickson; Lewis C. Calk (1995-12-10). "Tholeiitic-alkalic transition at subglacial volcanoes, Tuya region, British Columbia, Canada". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 100 (B12): 24577–24592. Bibcode:1995JGR...10024577M. doi:10.1029/95JB02509.
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