Cocoa Crater

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Cocoa Crater, also known as Cocoa Cone, is a small volcano in the Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is a cinder cone with an elevation of 2,117 metres (6,946 feet) and sits at the southern end of the Snowshoe Lava Field on the Big Raven Plateau, near Mount Edziza Provincial Park and the community of Telegraph Creek.

The crater formed in the Holocene and produced lava and pyroclastic rocks. It erupted a lava flow about 2 kilometres wide that travelled northwest across the Big Raven Plateau into the Sezill Creek canyon. Cocoa Crater is part of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, a region created by plate tectonics and rifting.

The rocks of Cocoa Crater are hawaiite, and it is described as a hawaiitic cinder cone within the Big Raven Formation, the youngest unit of the Mount Edziza complex. Nearby volcanic features include Punch Cone, Coffee Crater, Keda Cone, Koosick Bluff, and Hoia Bluff.

Cocoa Crater lies within Mount Edziza Provincial Park, one of British Columbia’s largest parks, covering about 266,180 hectares (657,700 acres) and established in 1972 to protect the volcanic landscape.

Naming: Cocoa Crater’s official name was adopted on May 6, 1954 on the National Topographic System map 104G. It is also listed as Cocoa Cone by Natural Resources Canada. The name “Cocoa” refers to the cone’s deep colors. The coordinates are 57°39′20″N 130°42′25″W.