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Marble Canyon (British Columbia) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Marble Canyon (British Columbia)
Marble Canyon is in the south-central Interior of British Columbia, a few kilometres east of the Fraser River and the community of Pavilion, midway between the towns of Lillooet and Cache Creek. The canyon stems from a collapsed karst formation. ==Nomenclature==
The canyon's name comes from the brilliant limestone of its walls. The bedrock is microcrystalline limestone (sedimentary rock) rather than marble (metamorphic rock). The native name of the canyon in the Shuswap language is, when referring to the whole, ''sxmeltám'', possibly referring to "Indian doctors",〔(Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia, "Native names for Marble Canyon", citing an essay by R. Tyhurst's in ''A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau'', Brian Hayden's, SFU Press )〕 while the name for the area of Crown and Turquoise Lakes and the provincial campground and adjoining south wall is ''getsgátsp'', of unknown meaning. In addition to the steep walls rising from the lake's southeastern end, there is an eroded pinnacle known as Chimney Rock, or in a translation of ''K'lpalekw'', the Secwepemc (Shuswap) name for it, Coyote's Penis.〔("Chimney Rock", Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia )〕
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