Ember Ridge is a volcanic mountain ridge associated with the Mount Cayley volcanic field

Mount Cayley volcanic field

The Mount Cayley volcanic field is a remote volcanic zone on the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada, stretching from the Pemberton Icefield to the Squamish River. It forms a segment of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, the Canadian portion of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, which extends from Northern...

 in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

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. Ember Ridge is made of a series of steep-sided domes of glassy, complexly jointed, hornblende-phyric basalt

Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...

 with the most recent eruptions during the Holocene

Holocene

The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words and , meaning "entirely recent"...

. The domes have structural similarities which indicate that the domes are similar in age and could have formed by the same foundation.

Volcanoes

Lava domes associated with Ember Ridge include:

• Ember Ridge North (50°4′36"N 123°14′20"W)
• Ember Ridge Northeast (50°4′20"N 123°12′55"W)
• Ember Ridge Northwest (50°4′33"N 123°15′23"W)
• Ember Ridge Southeast (50°2′47"N 123°13′19"W)
• Ember Ridge Southwest (50°2′45"N 123°15′8"W)
• Ember Ridge West (50°4′2"N 123°15′41"W)

See also

• Mount Cayley
  Mount Cayley
  Mount Cayley is a potentially active stratovolcano in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Located north of Squamish and west of Whistler in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, it rises above the Squamish River to the west and above the Cheakamus...
  
  
• Cascade Volcanoes
  Cascade Volcanoes
  The Cascade Volcanoes are a number of volcanoes in a volcanic arc in western North America, extending from southwestern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California, a distance of well over 700 mi ...
  
  
• List of Cascade volcanoes
• List of volcanoes in Canada
• Volcanism of Canada
• Volcanism of Western Canada
  Volcanism of Western Canada
  Volcanism of Western Canada produces lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common volcanic forms such as tuyas and subglacial mounds.-Volcanic belts:*Anahim...