Wells Grey, east-central British Columbia, Canada

                                                                                    Photograph by C. Hickson

The Wells Gray volcanic field, in east-central British Columbia, is made up of numerous small basaltic volcanoes and cinder cones such as Kostal (pictured above), Spanish, Fourmill cones. Individual volcanoes have been active for at least the last 3 million years during which time the region was covered by thick glacial ice at least three times. In addition to subaerial lava flows and cinder cones, several different types of subglacial lava deposits occur in the Wells Gray area. Many of the volcanoes in the Wells Gray area are now protected as part of a provincial park (Wells Gray Provincial Park).
 

                                                                                    Photograph by C. Hickson

Dragon Cone as viewed from the air.

-summary by Ben Edwards, Grand Valley State University, MI

Hickson, C.J., 1990. Wells Gray-Clearwater, Canada. In Wood, C.A., & Kienle, J. (eds.) Volcanoes of North America,
Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge, p. 137-38

Hickson, C.J. 1986. Quaternary volcanism in the Wells Gray-Clearwater area, east-central
British Columbia. Unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia.

Metcalfe, P. 1987. Petrogenesis of Quaternary alkaline lavas in Wells Gray Provincial Park,
B.C., and constraints on the petrology of the subcordilleran mantle. Unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Alberta.

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