Fraser Plateau

 ( Interior Plateau ) 

The Fraser Plateau is an intermontane plateau. It is one of the main subdivisions of the Interior Plateau located in the Central Interior of British Columbia.

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Geography The region includes the Cariboo Plateau and Chilcotin Plateau, and the adjoining Marble Range, Clear Range and on its southwestern edge.

It is defined as lying between the Bonaparte River on its southeast, beyond which is the Bonaparte or Kamloops Plateau, part of the Thompson Plateau, and by a line formed by the Dean River and West Road Rivers on its northwest (the Nechako Plateau lies to the north of the West Road).

Also included in the Fraser Plateau are the Itcha Range and and the adjoining Rainbow Range, which adjoin the Coast Mountains.

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Geology The Fraser Plateau consists of lava of the Chilcotin Group, a group of related volcanic rocks that is nearly parallel with the Fraser Plateau. Chasm and Dog Creek lithofacies, Chilcotin Group basalt, Bonaparte Lake map area, British Columbia

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See also

• Fraser Plateau and Basin complex (WWF ecoregion)

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Notes

• Landforms of British Columbia, S. Holland, BC Govt publication, 1976

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