5-573: Singleshot Mountain (7,930 feet (2,417 m)) is located in the Lewis Range , Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana . The mountain is easily seen from Saint Mary, Montana and was named after the single-shot fired from a rifle by George Bird Grinnell when dispatching a Bighorn sheep while hunting for food in 1885 during park explorations. The sedimentary layers of the Appekunny Formation are clearly displayed on
10-789: The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex located in Flathead and Lewis and Clark National Forests in Montana. The Continental Divide spans much of the uppermost sections of the range. Major peaks in the range include Mount Cleveland (10,479 ft; 3,194 m), which is the highest peak in the range and in Glacier National Park. Other prominent peaks include Mount Stimson (10,142 ft; 3,091 m), Mount Jackson (10,052 ft; 3,064 m), Mount Siyeh (10,014 ft; 3,052 m), Going to
15-785: The Sun Mountain , (9,642 ft; 2,939 m) and the isolated Chief Mountain (9,080 ft; 2,770 m). The Chinese Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness is a 1,000 ft (300 m) high feature that runs for 40 miles (64 km). Major passes include Marias Pass and Logan Pass which bisects Glacier National Park east to west. Formed by the Lewis Overthrust beginning 170 million years ago, an enormous slab of Precambrian rocks 3 miles (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km) long faulted and slid over newer rocks of
20-744: The overlying of younger Cretaceous rocks by older Proterozoic rocks. The range is located within Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta , Canada and Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in Montana , United States. The highest peak is Mount Cleveland at 10,479 ft (3,194 m). The Lewis Range is within Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada, and in Glacier National Park and
25-493: The southeastern cliffs of Singleshot Mountain. This Glacier County , Montana state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lewis Range The Lewis Range is a mountain range located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Montana , United States and extreme southern Alberta , Canada. It was formed as a result of the Lewis Overthrust , a geologic thrust fault resulted in
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