Mount Lambe
Mountain in the country of Canada
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Mount Lambe
Location in Alberta and British Columbia
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Mount Lambe
Mount Lambe (British Columbia)
Show map of British ColumbiaMount Lambe is a 3,182-metre (10,440-foot) mountain summit located in the Canadian Rockies on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1918 after Lawrence Morris Lambe, a Canadian geologist, palaeontologist, and ecologist from the Geological Survey of Canada.[3]
Geology
Mount Lambe is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Cambrian periods and pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[5]
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Lambe is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[6] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.
See also
References
- ^ "Mount Lambe". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- ^ "Topographic map of Mount Lambe". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- ^ a b c "Mount Lambe". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^ a b "Mount Lambe (Alberta)". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
- ^ Gadd, Ben (2008), Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.
External links
- Photo of Mt. Lambe Summitsearch.org
- "Mount Lambe". BC Geographical Names.
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