Cocoa Crater

Cocoa Crater is a Holocene cinder cone in northwestern British Columbia’s Mount Edziza Provincial Park, at the southern end of the Big Raven Plateau in the Snowshoe Lava Field. Part of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex, it rises 2,117 metres and is the largest subaerial cone in the lava field. Built of hawaiitic material, it formed through eruptions that produced pyroclastic deposits and lava. One lava flow spread northwest across the plateau into Sezill Creek canyon, where its path was bent by a stagnant valley glacier, preserving clear evidence of interaction between ice and volcanism. The surrounding protected landscape is part of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province.

British Columbia · Canada