PowerPoint Presentation27 January 2013 • Many subranges(Gold, Jordan, Midway, Kettle River etc.) TNRD Film (3274m), Hallam Peak (3205m), Mt. Thor (3146m) River Plateau : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monashee_peaks.JPG http://bivouac.com/TempFiles/Thumb/Mtn/2209_5813.jpg • Steep valley walls pleistocene - Orographic lifting over vancouver island and coast mountains leads to condensation - Clouds have less moisture by the time they are lifted by the Monashees A) Hallam Peak - MAT: -4.4°C - MAT: 4.3°C snowmelt season -Conservative year-to-year Shuswap terrane a base of gneiss and granitic batholiths - Subdivided into the Frenchman Cap and Thor- Odin complex along the ocean-continent margin continent terrane, a metamorphic core of the Monashee range (Brown and Read, 1983) -Large sediment deposits at start of Holocene -300m thick deposits in as little as 200yrs 9) Vegetation - Biogeoclimatic zone: Engelmann spruce – subalpine fir zone - represents all land below alpine tundra in the Columbia Mountains, and the majority of the Monashee range redcedar are also abundant (Coupe et al., n.d.) Ministry of Forests, 1998) - Subalpine meadows occur where Indian hellebore, subalpine daisy, paintbrush, and Sitka valerian - Some subalpine grasslands exist, but only in drier, southern areas (Church and Ryder, 2010) - Biogeoclimatic zone: Alpine tundra zone - represents all land above the Engelmann spruce – subalpine fir zone in the Columbia Mountains fescue, wheatgrasses and bluegrasses, alpine sweatgrass, etc.) and lichens Soils (Church and Ryder, 2010) (Church and Ryder, 2010) References B.C. Ministry of Forests (1998). The ecology of the Engelmann spruce – subalpine fir zone. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/bro /bro55.pdf B.C. Ministry of Forests (1998). The ecology of the alpine tundra zone. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/bro/bro56.pdf Brown, R.L., & Read, P.B. (1983). Shuswap terrane of British Columbia: A Mesozoic “core complex”. Geology, 11(3), 164- 168. Church, B.N., & Jones, L.D. (1999). Metallogeny of the Bridge River mining camp. Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Natural Gas. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.empr.gov.bc.ca/mining/geoscience/minfile/products downloads/publicationslist/pages/bridge.aspx Church, M., & Ryder, J.M. (2010). Physiography of British Columbia. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.geog. uvic.ca/geog476/church2010.pdf ubc.ca/cfcg/ClimateBC/ClimateBC.html#desktop Coupe, R., Stewart, A.C., & Wikeem, B.M. (n.d.). Engelmann spruce – subalpine fir zone. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/docs/srs/Srs06/ chap15.pdf Google Earth (Version 6.1) [Software]. Google Inc. (2011) Holland, S.S. (1976). Landforms of British Columbia: A physiographic outline. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.geog.uvic.ca/geog476/holland1976.pdf. Journeay, J.M. (1981). Structural setting along the northwest flank of Frenchman Cap Dome Monashee complex. British Columbia Geological Survey Fieldwork, 187-201. Moore, R.D., Spittlehouse, D.L., Whitfield, D.H., & Stahl, K. (n.d.). Weather and climate. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Docs/Lmh/L mh66/Lmh66_ch03.pdf NavCanada (n.d.). Weather patterns of British Columbia. Retrieved January 25, 2013 from http://www.navcanada.ca/ contentdefinitionfiles/publications/lak/bc/3-bc31e.pdf Williams, P.F. (2011). Cyclicity folding in the Monashee complex of the Canadian Cordillera. Journal of Structural Geology, 33(3), 187.
