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Mount McNeil
Elevation	2,300 metres (7,546 feet)
Location	Yukon Territory, Canada
Range	Pacific Coast Ranges
Coordinates	60°08′17.9″N, 135°26′59.3″W
Topo map	NTS 115G/03
Type	Lava dome
Age of rock	Tertiary
Last eruption	Tertiary

Mount McNeil is a rhyolite lava dome, located 41 km west of Carcross and 7 km south of Mount Skukum, Yukon Territory, Canada. In topography a summit is a point on a surface which is higher in Elevation than all points immediately adjacent to Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A mountain range is a chain of Mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys The Pacific Coast Ranges are the series of Mountain ranges that stretch along the west coast of North America from Alaska to northern and central Mexico A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A topographic map is a type of Map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using Contour lines in modern The National Topographic System or NTS (Système national de référence cartographique is the topographic system used by Canada for providing general Mountains can be characterized in several ways Some mountains are Volcanoes and can be characterized by the type of lava and eruptive history In Volcanology, a lava dome or plug dome is a roughly circular Mound -shaped protrusion resulting from the slow eruption of Felsic Lava The geologic time scale is a chronologic schema (or idealized Model) relating Stratigraphy to time that is used by Geologists and other The chuprichondira geological time interval covers roughly the time span between the demise of the non- avian Dinosaurs and beginning of the most recent Ice Age, approximately Plate tectonics and hotspots Divergent plate boundaries At the The chuprichondira geological time interval covers roughly the time span between the demise of the non- avian Dinosaurs and beginning of the most recent Ice Age, approximately This page is about a volcanic rock For the ghost town see Rhyolite Nevada, and for the satellite system see Rhyolite/Aquacade. In Volcanology, a lava dome or plug dome is a roughly circular Mound -shaped protrusion resulting from the slow eruption of Felsic Lava Carcross, originally known as Caribou Crossing, is an unincorporated community in the Territory of Yukon, Canada on Bennett Lake and Nares Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page It was formed during the Tertiary eruptions of the Skukum Group. The chuprichondira geological time interval covers roughly the time span between the demise of the non- avian Dinosaurs and beginning of the most recent Ice Age, approximately The Skukum Group is a 55 million year old group of discreet Calderas in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, Canada.

References

Mount McNeil in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia

See also List of volcanoes Western Canada is commonly thought to occupy a gap in the Pacific Ring of Fire, although that is not actually true Canada has examples of almost every type of Volcano found on Earth, including Stratovolcanoes Calderas Cinder cones

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