Talk:Keremeos Columns Provincial Park

Keremeos Columns
Should there be a separate article for these basalt columns? According to BC Parks, the columns are not within the park boundaries.  Volcano guy  23:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. that's right, they're not. Well, it's true that not all of Marble Canyon (in fact, most of it) is not in Marble Canyon Provincial Park.  It helps to udnerstand that prov parks exist mostly to provide campsites and picnic tables in many cases, they're not preservation measures at all; in the case of this one they picnic tables were located as near as possible to the columns (which are, er, on crown or private land?).  finding indepedently-cited material for these, dot make an article, dunno where to look for that; maybe MinFile; there's more on the West Kettle, also.Skookum1 (talk) 03:53, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I suspect the volcanology cats and projects are not needed for this article since the columns are not within the park.  Volcano guy  05:05, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Er, er, er, yeah I guess that's so; but taking them out behooves you to source material so as to cite/write an actual article on the columns; unless they're just part of the Chilcotin Plateau Basalts and are included there, or??Skookum1 (talk) 06:28, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * There was an article on them in Beautiful British Columbia Magazine many, many years ago about them - early '60s maybe? maybe ealier? - that had the details about the land and why they're not in the park. No geo-information....but you could try writing the Keremeos Museum, the newspaper there, the local mines office (prob in Penticton or Princeton?), or just write the BC Parks website and see what they say, and what cites they may have for the geology, even though the columns themselves are not in the park (as at Marble Canyon, again, and other examples I could mention).  Beautiful BC Magazine might be in a major uni or city library, i.e. in "Journals" at SFU/UBC, or Special Collections, or at VPL (where it's most likely to be IMO).Skookum1 (talk) 06:36, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what geologic formation the Keremeos Columns are part of. While I was doing some research on the columns last night I did find out that they are located on private property, which is probably why they are not within the park.  Volcano guy  07:21, 17 December 2010 (UTC)