5 Types of Mountains in Canadian Rockies:
Castellated mountains - Weak layers of shale separated by limestone, dolomite and quartz. They form unique cliffs with weak layers.
Dogtooth Mountains - Formed with sedimentary rock that is vertically thrusted towards the summit.
Horn Mountains - Formed when glaciers eroded different sides of the same mountain.
Overthrust Mountains - Has a desk like shape. When sheets of rock slid upward, they layered on top of each other during the initial collisions.
Sawtooth Mountains - The
edges of the rock sheets are perpendicular to the main wind direction.
It has an hourglass shape eroded into the shale formation.
 | Highest peak, Mount Robson (12,970 ft) |
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