Slag Hill

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Slag Hill

| photo = Slag_Hill_and_Ring_Mountain.jpg

| photo_caption = An image of Ring Mountain (background) and Slag Hill (foreground)

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| location = British Columbia, Canada

| range = Pacific Ranges

| map = Canada British Columbia

| map_caption = Location in British Columbia

| label_position = below

| coordinates = {{coord|50|11|00.23|N|123|18|00.25|W|type:mountain_region:CA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| type = Subglacial volcano

| volcanic_arc/belt = Canadian Cascade Arc{{clear}}Garibaldi Volcanic Belt

| last_eruption = Holocene

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Slag Hill is a subglacial volcano associated with the Mount Cayley volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada. It consists of glassy, augite-phyric basaltic andesite in steep-sided, glassy, finely jointed domes and one small, flat-topped bluff. The finely jointed domes are similar to those of Ember Ridge. There are quench features at Slag Hill, which is suggesting that the volcanic activity was subglacial. Slag Hill was formed throughout the Pleistocene period, but its most recent volcanic activity produced a lava flow on its western lobe that shows no evidence of ice-contact volcanism.[http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/volcano_e.php?id=gvb_shl_021 Catalogue of Canadian Volcanoes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716024840/http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/volcano_e.php?id=gvb_shl_021 |date=2011-07-16 }} Retrieved on 2007-05-28 This indicates the lava flow was erupted less than 10,000 years ago after the last glacial period.

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