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The Table is a flat-topped volcanic mountain in British Columbia's Garibaldi area, rising 2,021 metres near Garibaldi Lake and Mount Garibaldi. It is a flow-dominated andesite tuya, formed when volcanic eruption occurred beneath ice. In 1951, geologist Bill Mathews proposed that magma rose into the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, melted a vertical tube through the ice, and cooled into a mass of hornblende-phyric andesite, with gravity flattening the summit and horizontal columns forming around the edges. Because it shows no later glacial erosion, it likely formed in the early Holocene just before the ice sheet vanished. Its steep, unstable walls make it nearly unclimbable, though its distinctive form has made it a recognizable film location.
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