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Powder Mountain Icefield, also called the Powder Mountain Icecap or Cayley Icefield, is a glacial field in southwestern British Columbia west of Whistler and north of Vancouver. Its importance lies in the unusually close interplay of ice and volcanism: peaks such as Mount Cayley, Powder Mountain, Brandywine Mountain, and Mount Fee rise through or around it, while repeated subglacial eruptions formed distinctive features in the Mount Cayley volcanic field, including Ember Ridge and the tuya Slag Hill. Volcanic rocks here range from andesite to rhyodacite, and eruptions continued within the past 10,000 years. The surrounding area later became entwined with disputed resort development and Olympic infrastructure in the Callaghan Valley.
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