Mountain Diatreme

Mountain Diatreme

The Mountain Diatreme is a diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located 190 km (118 mi) southwest of Norman Wells. It has a diameter of 600 m (1,969 ft) and is one of the nearly 100 diatremes in the central Mackenzie Mountains.[1]

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