Sturgeon_Lake_Caldera
Sturgeon Lake Caldera
Extinct caldera complex in Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada
Sturgeon Lake Caldera is a large extinct caldera complex in Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is one of the world's best preserved mineralized Neoarchean caldera complexes, containing well-preserved mafic-intermediate pillow lavas, pillow breccias, hyaloclastite and peperites, submarine lava domes and dome-associated breccia deposits. The complex is some 2.7 billion years old[1] with a minimum strike length of 30 km (19 mi).
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