ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Garibaldi Volcanic Belt

Okay kiddo, have you ever seen a volcano before? It's kind of like a big mountain that can shoot out lava and ash from the top. And have you ever heard of a volcano erupting? That's when all the stuff inside the volcano comes out and can make a big mess.

Well, the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt is a special area in Canada where there are many volcanoes that are no longer active (which means they don't erupt anymore), but they used to be active a long, long time ago. These volcanoes would shoot out lava and ash and other things that would create new landforms.

The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt is in a place called British Columbia and it's made up of rock and ash that was created by those old volcanoes. Some of the mountains in that area, like Garibaldi Mountain, were created by those old volcanoes too.

Now, even though the volcanoes aren't active anymore, there are still geologists (scientists who study rocks and the Earth) who study the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt to try to learn more about how it was formed and what kinds of things happened there. And people like to visit the area to see the mountains and the pretty lakes that were formed by the old volcanoes.

So that's a pretty simple explanation of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt. It's an area in Canada with lots of old volcanoes that made some cool mountains and rocks.