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Mess Creek

Index Mess Creek

Mess Creek, formerly known as Mestua, is a tributary of the Stikine River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. [1]

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  1. 58 relations: Alaska, Alluvial fan, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Barren vegetation, Basalt, Boundary Ranges, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places, Canyon, Cassiar Land District, Conifer, Crayke Creek, Dawson City, Dease Lake, Depression (geology), Discharge (hydrology), Drainage basin, Elwyn Creek, Fault (geology), Geological Survey of Canada, Google Earth, Graben, Herbaceous plant, Holocene, Hydrothermal circulation, Inside Passage, Iskut, Kitsu Creek, Land cover, List of rivers of British Columbia, Magma, Magma chamber, Mess Creek, Mess Creek Escarpment, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Mount Edziza, Mount Edziza Provincial Park, Mount Edziza volcanic complex, National Topographic System, Raspberry Creek (British Columbia), Shrubland, Stikine River, Strait, Strike and dip, Tadekho Creek, Tahltan, Taweh Creek, Telegraph Creek, The Ash Pit, ... Expand index (8 more) »

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alluvial fan

An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment.

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Ashcroft, British Columbia

Ashcroft is a village municipality that straddles the Thompson River in the Thompson Country region of south central British Columbia, Canada.

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Barren vegetation

Barren vegetation describes an area of land where plant growth may be sparse, stunted, and/or contain limited biodiversity.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Boundary Ranges

The Boundary Ranges, also known in the singular and as the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northerly subrange of the Coast Mountains.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Register of Historic Places

The Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP; Le Répertoire canadien des lieux patrimoniaux), also known as Canada's Historic Places, is an online directory of historic places in Canada which have been formally recognized for their heritage value by a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal authority.

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Canyon

A canyon (from; archaic British English spelling: cañon), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.

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Cassiar Land District

The Cassiar Land District is a cadastral survey subdivision of the province of British Columbia, Canada, created with rest of those on Mainland British Columbia via the Lands Act of the Colony of British Columbia in 1860.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Crayke Creek

Crayke Creek is a tributary of Mess Creek and part of the Stikine River watershed in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Crayke Creek are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Dawson City

Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a city in the Canadian territory of Yukon.

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Dease Lake

Dease Lake is a small community in the Cassiar Country of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Dease Lake are Stikine Country.

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Depression (geology)

In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

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Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate (volume per time, in units of m3/h or ft3/h) of a stream.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Elwyn Creek

Elwyn Creek is a tributary of Mess Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the Stikine River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Elwyn Creek are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Geological Survey of Canada

The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC; Commission géologique du Canada, CGC) is a Canadian federal government agency responsible for performing geological surveys of the country developing Canada's natural resources and protecting the environment.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.

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Graben

In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Hydrothermal circulation

Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Inside Passage

The Inside Passage (Passage Intérieur) is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific Northwest coast of the North American Fjordland.

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Iskut

Iskut is a small, mostly Indigenous community in the Stikine Country of northwestern British Columbia. Mess Creek and Iskut are Stikine Country and Tahltan.

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Kitsu Creek

Kitsu Creek is a tributary of Mess Creek and part of the Stikine River watershed in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Kitsu Creek are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Land cover

Land cover is the physical material at the land surface of Earth.

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List of rivers of British Columbia

The following is a partial list of rivers of British Columbia, organized by watershed.

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Magma

Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.

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Magma chamber

A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth.

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Mess Creek

Mess Creek, formerly known as Mestua, is a tributary of the Stikine River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Mess Creek are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Mess Creek Escarpment

The Mess Creek Escarpment is an escarpment in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the east side of Mess Creek below Mess Lake and southeast of Telegraph Creek.

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Minister of Energy and Natural Resources

The minister of energy and natural resources is the minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).

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Mount Edziza

Mount Edziza, sometimes called Edziza Mountain or Edziza Peak, is a stratovolcano in Cassiar Land District of northwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Mount Edziza Provincial Park

Mount Edziza Provincial Park is a provincial park in Cassiar Land District of northern British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Mount Edziza Provincial Park are Stikine Country and Tahltan Highland.

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Mount Edziza volcanic complex

The Mount Edziza volcanic complex (abbreviated MEVC) is a group of volcanoes and associated lava flows in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Mount Edziza volcanic complex are Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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National Topographic System

The National Topographic System or NTS is the system used by Natural Resources Canada for providing general purpose topographic maps of the country.

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Raspberry Creek (British Columbia)

Raspberry Creek is a tributary of Mess Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the Stikine River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Raspberry Creek (British Columbia) are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Shrubland

Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.

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Stikine River

The Stikine River is a major river in northern British Columbia (BC), Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. Mess Creek and Stikine River are Stikine Country.

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Strait

A strait is a landform connecting two seas or two water basins.

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Strike and dip

In geology, strike and dip is a measurement convention used to describe the plane orientation or attitude of a planar geologic feature.

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Tadekho Creek

Tadekho Creek is a tributary of Mess Creek and part of the Stikine River watershed in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Tadekho Creek are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Tahltan

The Tahltan or Nahani are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group who live in northern British Columbia around Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake, and Iskut. Mess Creek and Tahltan are Stikine Country.

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Taweh Creek

Taweh Creek is a tributary of Mess Creek, which in turn is a tributary of the Stikine River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Mess Creek and Taweh Creek are Cassiar Land District, Stikine Country, Tahltan and Tahltan Highland.

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Telegraph Creek

Telegraph Creek is a small community located off Highway 37 in northern British Columbia at the confluence of the Stikine River and Telegraph Creek. Mess Creek and Telegraph Creek are Stikine Country and Tahltan.

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The Ash Pit

The Ash Pit is an inactive volcanic crater, located on the southern edge of the Kitsu Plateau in British Columbia, Canada.

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Topographic map

In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historically using a variety of methods.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Tufa

Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of water in unheated rivers or lakes.

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University of British Columbia Press

The University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) is a university press that is part of the University of British Columbia.

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Unnamed lake

An unnamed lake is a body of water with no official nor generally agreed upon name.

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Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex

The Mount Edziza volcanic complex (MEVC) in British Columbia, Canada, has a long history of volcanism that spans more than 7 million years.

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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Yukon Telegraph Trail

The Yukon Telegraph Trail, also known simply as the Telegraph Trail, is a historic pathway in the Canadian province of British Columbia that extends from the village of Ashcroft in the south to the community of Atlin in the north.

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See also

Tahltan Highland

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess_Creek

Also known as Mess Creek Hot Springs, Mess Lake, Mess Lake Hot Springs, Mestua.

, Topographic map, Tributary, Tufa, University of British Columbia Press, Unnamed lake, Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex, Yukon, Yukon Telegraph Trail.