Cassiar Mountains

Cassiar Mountains

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country=Canada
region=British Columbia
parent=Interior Mountains
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highest=Thudaka Peak
highest_elevation=2748
highest_lat_d=57|highest_lat_m=55|highest_lat_s=36.8|highest_lat_NS=N
highest_long_d=126|highest_long_m=50|highest_long_s=53.9|highest_long_EW=W


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The Cassiar Mountains are the most northerly group of the Northern Interior Mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia. They lie north and west of the Omineca Mountains, west of the northernmost Rockies and the Rocky Mountain Trench, north of the Hazelton Mountains and east of the Boundary Ranges. Physiographically, they are a section of the larger Yukon-Tanana Uplands province, which in turn are part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division.

In the western Cassiar Mountains lie the remnants of a prehistoric shield volcano called the Maitland Volcano which formed between 5 and 4 million years ago during the Pliocene period.

The highest mountain in the Cassiar Mountains is Thudaka Peak at Unit m|2748|0. [ [http://www.bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=3893 Thudaka Peak] in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia]

ub-ranges

*Dease Plateau
*Kechika Ranges
*Sifton Ranges
**Cormier Range
**Ruby Range
*Stikine Ranges
**Beady Range
**Nisutlin Plateau
**Skree Range
**Three Sisters Range
**Thudaka Range
**Tuya Range

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title=Landforms of British Columbia
publisher=Province of British Columbia
date=1976
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