Mount Rundle is a mountain in Canada 's Banff National Park overlooking the towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta . The Cree name was Waskahigan Watchi or house mountain. In 1858 John Palliser renamed the mountain after Reverend Robert Rundle , a Methodist invited by the Hudson's Bay Company to do missionary work in western Canada in the 1840s. He introduced syllabics there —a written language developed for the Cree, as part of his missionary work. He only visited the Stoney-Nakoda of the area around what is now called Mount Rundle in 1844 and 1847.
24-640: Goat Creek or Goat's Creek may refer to: Goat Creek (Alberta) , a creek near Mount Rundle Goat Creek (Idaho) , connected to many bodies of water; see List of lakes of the Sawtooth Mountains (Idaho) Goat Creek, a major tributary for the Clearwater River (British Columbia) Goat Creek (or Sierra Creek), a tributary of the Dry Creek (Sacramento River) Goat Creek, former name for
48-450: A high pH . They are characterized by the presence of calcium carbonate in the parent material; the carbonate-ion is a base. Additionally, these soils may have a calcic horizon, a layer of secondary accumulation of carbonates (usually calciumcarbonate or magnesiumcarbonate) in excess of 15% calcium carbonate equivalent and at least 5% more carbonate than an underlying layer. Calcareous deposits can form in water pipes. An example of this
72-575: Is used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines. Calcareous is used as an adjectival term applied to anatomical structures which are made primarily of calcium carbonate, in animals such as gastropods , i.e., snails , specifically in relation to such structures as the operculum , the clausilium , and the love dart . The term also applies to the calcium carbonate tests of, often, more-or-less microscopic Foraminifera . Not all tests are calcareous; diatoms and radiolaria have siliceous tests. The molluscs are calcareous organisms, as are
96-727: Is a common dimension stone used in southern Alberta for landscaping and building purposes. It has been used in the construction of the Banff Springs Hotel and several of the Parks Canada buildings. It is fine-grained sandstone dating back to the Triassic Period. At the EEOR near Canmore there is a well-known scramble, the Goat Creek hiking trail, with its starting point at parking trailhead, which starts at
120-661: Is a form of calcium carbonate sediment that consists of >30% biogenous material predominantly consisting of organisms such as coccolithophores and foraminifera . These oozes form slowly under low-energy environments, and necessitate higher seawater saturation states or a deeper CCD (see supersaturation and precipitation vs. undersaturation and dissolution ). Therefore, in shallow CCD conditions ( i.e. , undersaturation of calcium carbonate at depth), stable, non-calcareous sediments such as siliceous ooze or pelagic red clay will prevail in marine sediment records. Calcareous soils are relatively alkaline , in other words they have
144-399: Is considered gruelling by some. About halfway up there is a Central Gully, a huge watercourse with a well-worn path which is a dead end. Cliffs become higher and more vertical and there is no scrambling route. The real route crosses the watercourse and then immediately turns left (watch for markings). As one passes the treeline, the hiker ventures onto a feature called the "Dragon's back", where
168-474: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mount Rundle Mt. Rundle could actually be considered a small mountain range as the mountain extends for over 12 kilometres (7.5 mi), on the south side of the Trans-Canada Highway eastward from Banff to Canmore with seven distinct peaks along the way. The third peak southeast of Banff
192-474: Is never the same. In deep shadow in the morning, it borrows a warm glow from the setting sun at the end of the day. Its colour runs the gamut from orange to cold blue-grey, with overtones of violet and intervals of green." The viewpoint from which most photographs are taken, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Mount Rundle, at the end of Vermilion Lakes road, with Vermillion Lakes in the foreground. Mount Rundle and Sulphur Mountain can be seen from Mount Norquay on
216-812: Is the highest at 9,675 feet (2,949 m). West of the Spray Lakes road is the East End of Rundle — locally known as EEOR —which rises above Whiteman's Gap just south of Canmore. The Rundle Peaks are part of the South Banff Ranges, along with its siblings—the Sundance Range , Sulphur Mountain and the Goat Range . Mount Rundle consists of limestones , dolomitic limestones, dolomites and shales of Paleozoic ( Late Devonian to Mississippian ) age. In ascending order, they belong to
240-693: Is used in pathology, for example in calcareous conjunctivitis , and when referring to calcareous metastasis or calcareous deposits , which may both be removed surgically. The term calcareous can be applied to a sediment , sedimentary rock , or soil type which is formed from, or contains a high proportion of, calcium carbonate in the form of calcite or aragonite . Calcareous sediments are typically deposited in shallow water closer to land, as marine organisms that precipitate calcium carbonate primarily reside within shallow water ecosystems due to an inability to precipitate calcium carbonate at depth (see carbonate compensation depth ). Generally speaking,
264-739: The Deception River in New Zealand Goat Creek, former name for Mazama, Washington Goat Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River (Clackamas County, Oregon) Goat's Creek , a river located on the Dardanelles , site of a major battle of the Peloponnesian War See also [ edit ] Goat River (disambiguation) Goat Lake (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
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#1732794143516288-705: The Palliser , Exshaw and Banff Formations , topped by the Rundle Group , which was named after the mountain. Mount Rundle illustrates the classic limestone-shale-limestone "sandwich" of the front ranges. The basal "slice of bread" is the lower massive cliffs of tough grey Pallister Formation limestones and dolomites. The "sandwich filling" is the Banff Formation, a layer of softer, more easily eroded, dark brownish-gray to black calcareous shale with thin beds of argillaceous limestone. The top layer of
312-561: The Pleistocene epoch about 2 million years ago with the sculpting and gouging of the Canadian Rockies by glaciers, and then by streams and rivers. Finally, after the glaciers retreated for the last time, a series of steep, tree-covered alluvial fans began to grow at the mouths of the deep gulches on the northeast-facing side of the mountain. Rundle rock or Rundle stone , a natural stone, first quarried on Mount Rundle,
336-468: The calcareous sponges ( Calcarea ), that have spicules which are made of calcium carbonate. Additionally, reef-building corals, or Scleractinia , are calcareous organisms that form their rigid skeletal structure through the precipitation of aragonite ( i.e. , a polymorph of calcium carbonate). Calcareous grassland is a form of grassland characteristic of soils containing much calcium carbonate from underlying chalk or limestone rock. The term
360-784: The Rundle thrust fault and emplaced on top of the younger rocks (the Early Cretaceous Mist Mountain Formation ) that underlie Canmore and the forested slopes along the Bow River . The thrust faulting occurred during the Columbian Orogeny between late Jurassic and early Cretaceous time. At that time a collision of tectonic plates caused huge sheets of sedimentary rock in what is now British Columbia to become detached and slide eastward to northeastward over their neighbors, piling up to form
384-765: The Smith-Dorrien/Spray Trail just south of the Canmore Reservoir above Grassi Lakes . This is also the beginning of the Mount Rundle Traverse, a demanding trek to mount all of Rundle's peaks from Goat Creek parking lot to the Banff Springs Hotel. Mount Rundle is one of the most popular scrambles in the area, and is relatively straightforward for experienced hikers. In Banff, the Spray River trailhead for
408-464: The farther from land sediments fall, the less calcareous they are, and deviations from this expectation arise if (a) the ocean floor is shallower than the CCD or (b) storms/ocean currents transport calcareous sediments away from their origin point, leading to the interbedding of calcareous sediments in alternative locations. An additional form of calcareous marine sediment consists of calcareous ooze, which
432-627: The first peak taking the Mount Rundle Trail, is near the Spray River bridge on the road to the Banff Springs Golf Course. The all-day hike (from 8–10 hours) from the trailhead to the peak is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) one-way and has an elevation gain of about 993 metres (3,258 ft) to the cliff bank on the first peak and 1,579 metres (5,180 ft) to the summit. Although it is called non-technical, it
456-640: The geologic sandwich is the grey limestones and dolomites of the Rundle Group that form the massive upper cliffs at the top of Mount Rundle. Between the Palliser and the Banff lie the thin, recessive shales of the Exshaw Formation (the "lettuce leaf" of the sandwich), covered with debris from above. The Paleozoic "sandwich" is part of the Rundle thrust sheet that was moved up from the west along
480-499: The north side of the Trans-Canada. The Banff Fairmont hotel patio and restaurants look out over Mount Rundle and Tunnel Mountain . Mount Rundle is depicted on the cover of The Ghost Inside 's album Get What You Give . Calcareous Calcareous ( / k æ l ˈ k ɛər i ə s / ) is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate ", in other words, containing lime or being chalky . The term
504-436: The route narrows between two steep gullies. The only real obstacle at this point is perseverance at the tread-mill like scree which slows progress to a two steps forward, one step back pattern. The complete traverse from Banff to Canmore (staying always on the ridge) of the integral ridge was done "solo" in 1976 by the late Jean-Pierre Cadot. It required one bivouac, much scrambling, easy fifth-class rock climbing and one section
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#1732794143516528-427: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goat_Creek&oldid=592314565 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
552-477: The southern Canadian Rockies . This left the Paleozoic strata on Mount Rundle dipping steeply to the southwest, so that the southwest-facing side of the mountain forms an extensive dip slope . Geologists consider Mount Rundle to be a classic example of a mountain cut in dipping layered rocks, with the tilted strata giving the mountain its shape. The most recent stage in the history of Mount Rundle began in
576-478: Was very involved and required lay-backing the ridge with a high degree of exposure. A long rappel was necessary to overcome a very steep section and it is most likely that the rappel station is still in place. In 2000 Dave Birrell described Mount Rundle as one of the most recognized Canadian mountains. Painter, print-maker and art teacher, Walter Phillips RCA (1884–1963) described Mount Rundle as his, "bread and butter mountain. I never tire of painting it, for it
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