The Table

Infobox Mountain
Name=The Table
Photo= The Table1.jpg
Caption= The Table rises above the southwest side of Garibaldi Lake
Elevation= Unit m|2021|0
Location=British Columbia, Canada
Range=Garibaldi Ranges
Prominence =Unit m|251|0
Coordinates = coord|49|53|43|N|123|00|47|W|type:mountain_region:CA|display=inline,title
Topographic
NTC 92G/14 Cheakamus River
Type=Tuya
Volcanic_Arc/Belt=Cascade Volcanic ArcclearGaribaldi Volcanic Belt
Age=Pleistocene
Last eruption=Pleistocene
First ascent=1916 Tom Fyles
Easiest route=

The Table, sometimes called Table Mountain, is a 2,021 m (6,631 ft) high flow-dominated andesite tuya located Unit km|4|0 south of Garibaldi Lake, Unit km|15|0 northeast of Cheekye and Unit km|5|0 north of Mount Garibaldi, British Columbia, Canada. It rises over 530 m (1,750 ft) above the surface of Garibaldi Lake, which lies less than 1 km (0.6 mi) to the north.

The Table is almost impossible to climb because sections of the volcano have collapsed, creating steep and exceptionally rotten rock walls on all sides. The Teacup Handle on the west edge is an especially interesting feature. The Table has probably not been climbed since 1983.

Geology

The Table is part of the Garibaldi Lake Volcanic Field, a volcanic field that includes a group of nine small andesitic stratovolcanoes and basaltic-andesite vents formed during the early Holocene. This in turn is part of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt and of the Cascade Volcanic Arc that run from southwestern British Columbia to northern California caused by subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer Plate under the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone.

Canadian geologist Bill Mathews proposed in 1951 that The Table formed when magma intruded into and melted a vertical pipe in the overlying Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The partially molten mass of hornblende-phyric andesite cooled as a large block, with gravity flattening its upper surface. Horizontal columns occur at numerous locations along the periphery of the mass. The absence of glacial erosion of the tuya suggests that it erupted during the early Holocene, just prior to the disappearance of the ice sheet. Similar formations can be found in the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province and elsewhere in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt.

In Film

The Table is featured in "" as the site of the village where the Ark was hidden. The title sequence of the film features The Table, with a graphics overlay of the village superimposed on it, as well as an aerial tour of the Mount Garibaldi and Tantalus Range area.

ee also

*Cascade Volcanoes
*Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
*Garibaldi Lake Volcanic Field
*List of volcanoes in Canada
*Volcanism in Canada

References

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External links

* [http://www.canadianmountainencyclopedia.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=32 The Table] in the "Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia"