Turtle Mountain
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Turtle Mountain is an anticline of Paleozoic Rundle Group carbonates thrust over weaker Mesozoic clastics and coals. Summit fissures at the apex of the anticline likely allowed water to infiltrate and weaken the slightly-soluble carbonates within the mountain face, while the supporting underlying clastics were undermined by valley glaciation followed by erosion from the Crowsnest River.
The 1903 landslide removed the top of Turtle Mountain, leaving a present elevation of 2,109 metres (6,920 feet) for the north peak and 2,200 metres (7,217 feet) for the south peak.
The 1903 landslide removed the top of Turtle Mountain, leaving a present elevation of 2,109 metres (6,920 feet) for the north peak and 2,200 metres (7,217 feet) for the south peak.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide
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Coordinates: 49°34'47"N 114°24'44"W
- Plateau mountain 76 km
- Robinson Mountain 102 km
- Mist Mountain 115 km
- Grizzly Ridge & Highwood Ridge 120 km
- Mount Rundle 193 km
- Sulphur Mountain 194 km
- Cascade Mountain 204 km
- Valley of the Ten Peaks, Lake Louise 236 km
- Saskatchewan Glacier 350 km
- Sunwapta Peak 370 km
- Frank Slide 1.7 km
- Blairmore 4.3 km
- Coleman 8.7 km
- Cowley Airport 24 km
- Castle River Wind Farm 28 km
- Beauvais Lake 30 km
- Oldman River Reservoir 30 km
- Pincher Creek Airport 31 km
- Castle Rock Wind Farm 32 km
- Sinnott Wind Farm 32 km