Mount Pleasant Caldera

Mount Pleasant Caldera
Mount Pleasant Caldera is located in New Brunswick
Mount Pleasant Caldera
Mount Pleasant Caldera
Highest point
ElevationApprox. 248 m (814 ft)
ListingList of volcanoes in Canada
Coordinates45°30′01.35″N 66°45′16.31″W / 45.5003750°N 66.7545306°W / 45.5003750; -66.7545306
Geography
LocationCharlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada
Parent rangeAppalachian Mountains
Topo map021G07
Geology
Age of rockLate Devonian
Mountain typeCaldera
Climbing
Easiest routeAll-weather road[1]

The Mount Pleasant Caldera is a large eroded Late Devonian volcanic caldera complex, located in the northern Appalachian Mountains of southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. It is one of few noticeable pre-Cenozoic calderas, and its formation is associated to a period of crustal thinning that followed the Acadian orogeny in the northern Appalachian Mountains.[2] It sits relatively near to the coastline.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Adex-Overview was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ McCutcheon, S. R.; S. R. McCutcheon; H. E. Anderson; P. T. Robinson (January 1997). "Stratigraphy and eruptive history of the Late Devonian Mount Pleasant Caldera Complex, Canadian Appalachians". Cambridge Geological Magazine. 134 (1). Cambridge University Press: 17–36. doi:10.1017/S0016756897006213. S2CID 129124992. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  3. ^ "Image or region". Archived from the original on 2008-10-24. Retrieved 2009-03-16.