Phillipps Peak

Phillipps Peak stands on the Alberta–British Columbia border just north of Crowsnest Pass, on the Continental Divide as the lower western peak of Mount Tecumseh. Named in 1915 for Michael Phillipps, the first white man recorded to have crossed Crowsnest Pass in 1873, it occupies a corridor where Rocky Mountain passes became important travel routes through difficult country. The mountain is built of sedimentary rock laid down in shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, and its present form reflects uplift during the Laramide orogeny and movement along the Lewis Overthrust fault, where older Precambrian rock was pushed over younger Cretaceous layers.

British Columbia · Canada