User:Volcanoguy/DYK

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... that some lava flows at the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field in British Columbia, Canada include unique, small, green nodules that come from the mantle? (23 August 2008, 1.9k views)
... that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America? (13 September 2008, 1.3k views)
... that the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in northern British Columbia, Canada was a source of obsidian for Tahltan people and its lava plateau has been an important cultural resource? (15 September 2008: 2.0k views)
... that Bowie Seamount on the British Columbia Coast of Canada is one of the most biologically rich submarine volcanoes on Earth and was an active volcanic island throughout the last glacial period? (7 November 2008: 1.3k views)
... that volcanoes of the Milbanke Sound Group in British Columbia, Canada, remain mysterious because little is known about them and their origins are not well defined? (10 February 2010: 1.9k views)
... that the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif? (11 April 2010: 1.5k views)
... that the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in Canada is one of the largest Proterozoic magmatic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain? (20 June 2010: 1.3k views)
... that The Volcano in northwestern British Columbia is the youngest known volcano in Canada and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago? (27 June 2010: 2.0k views)
... that the Temagami Greenstone Belt in Ontario was the site of the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada? (28 November 2010: 1.4k views)
... that Heart Peaks in northern British Columbia, Canada, is the third largest volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province? (2 May 2011: 707 views)
... that American Canadian scientist Jack Souther contributed significantly to the early understanding of Quaternary volcanism in Canada? (29 June 2014: 328 views)
... that Belle of Temagami was the largest vessel ever to cruise Lake Temagami? (18 September 2015: 7.1k views)
... that Level Mountain is the most voluminous and most persistent volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province of North America? (02 January 2016: 2.7k views)
... that the Mount Cayley massif in British Columbia has been investigated as a potential geothermal energy resource? (12 September 2018: 9.8k views)