| Page Views: 1,459 Last Visit to Province of Alberta: July, 2004 | Beautiful rockies by kokoryko - last update: Jan 21, 2006 |
Rocks, oil, geology and more Some landscapes from the Rocky mountains.
The Alberta and British Columbia Rockies are really spectacular mountains, with very wide valleys enabling broad views over a big pat of the chain; in other mountains where valleys are narrow, you cannot see so wide sceneries or landscapes, except you climb on the highest peaks. I will not bother you with Natural Sciences , just tell you that these mountains are a world-class example of thin-skinned tectonics, where the thrust sheets involve "thin" sedimentary layers overrinding younger sedimentary formations. The tectonic features, here, are the consequences of continental drift (Plate tectonics is a more accurate wording), the sedimentary layers being folded (and thrusted) as a consequence of shortening, due to the collision of microcontinental blocks , carried by a subducting paleo-Pacific plate , with the North American plate. I stop with geology, just look at the rocks, the landscapes, they tell stories, beautiful stories, and if you are not interested in the stories, just look, dream, fill your eyes and your heart with the sceneries.
This mountain was build up from End Jurassic (150 Million Years) to Mid-Tertiary ( 30million years) , and it's foreland and foothills contain big oil and gas reserves which made Calgary the Canadian oil city. The beautiful landscapes have mostly been carved by the recent (500.000 to 30.000 years) glaciers erosion and the rivers. |
|  | Meet some nice locals! If you are a driver , leave your vehicle and walk a bit on the trails marked on the roadside: enjoy!
No strenuous hikes generally, few walks to enjoy the sceneries are a good thing, and in the car, on some roads you may even make nice encounters! |
| | The names of places I loved a lot the names of the localities and mountains, they are strange but there is always a meaning; imagine what people endured when they decided to call this place Hailstone butte.. . . . .
Other names are among a lot :
Crowsnest pass and crowsnest mountain
Old man river
Three sisters
Castle mountain
Broken Bow
etc. etc. In Europe we are not used to so explicit names, or they have changed and been altered with time, we do not know what they designate. |
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dabidc Tue Apr 1, 2008 04:11 UTC
Hermann, It is a pleasure to see your great comments about the Rockies, close to home for me. Pleased to see U did a lot of travelling and enjoyed it all. | Bwana_Brown Thu Dec 13, 2007 01:37 UTC
Hermann, an amazing page on your Alberta experiences! Your thoughts on how the Rockies looked to you were quite revealing to me - never thought of it like that before. You were very observant to see even a Black bear!! | Tijavi Thu Aug 2, 2007 22:32 UTC
Oh, another oil boomtown. I hope the extraction of oil does little damage to Alberta's pristine environment. OK, now I understand - you're a geologist! | robertgaz Wed Jul 11, 2007 07:44 UTC
Who needs voter rated wonders of the world when you can chill out in the Rockies ;~) |
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Province of Alberta Hotels
- Canmore Hotels
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- Prince of Wales Hotel
Waterton Lakes National Park Off Hwy. 5, Glacier Park Inc., Box 33, Waterton Lakes National Park
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111 Waterton Ave, PO Box 38, , Alberta, T0K 2M0, Canada, Waterton Lakes National Park
- Crandell Mountain Lodge
102 Mountview Rd., Waterton Lakes National Park
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107 Wildflower Ave Box 51, Waterton Lakes National Park
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