Parent peak Mount Erris First ascent 28 July 1904 | Listing Mountains of Alberta Topo map NTS 82G/10 Elevation 2,785 m Prominence 925 m Mountain range Crowsnest Range | |
Age of rock Paleozoic (upper), Mesozoic (lower) Similar Turtle Mountain, Mount Hosmer, Mount Ptolemy, Mount Sentry, Tent Mountain | ||
Crowsnest mountain alberta
Crowsnest Mountain is a scenic mountain in the southern Canadian Rockies of southwestern Alberta, Canada. It can be seen from Alberta Highway 3 west of the town of Coleman in the Crowsnest Pass. The mountain was originally named by the local Cree Indians due to the ravens that nested in the area. The scrambling route on the north side was first ascended in 1915.
Contents
- Crowsnest mountain alberta
- Map of Crowsnest Mountain Ranchland No 66 AB Canada
- Climbing crowsnest mountain
- GeologyEdit
- References
Map of Crowsnest Mountain, Ranchland No. 66, AB, Canada
Climbing crowsnest mountain
GeologyEdit
The grey rocks exposed in the cliffs on the upper part of Crowsnest Mountain are limestones and shales of Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age (the Palliser at the base, overlain by the Exshaw and Banff, with the Livingstone Formation at the summit). They were moved up from the west along the Lewis thrust fault and emplaced over younger rocks (the Late Cretaceous Belly River Formation) that underlie the wooded lower slopes of the mountain. During that movement they were formed into a broad syncline by fault-bend folding.
The Devonian to Mississippian rocks are part of the Lewis thrust sheet which was originally continuous from the High Rock Range immediately to the west. The thrust sheet has since been cut through by erosion along Allison Creek, however, leaving Crowsnest Mountain and its northerly neighbour, Seven Sisters Mountain, standing together as an isolated klippe.