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Tombstone Mountain is a 3,002-metre double-summit peak in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, near the southern end of the Opal Range in Elbow-Sheep Wildland Provincial Park. Named in 1884 by surveyor George Mercer Dawson for summit rocks resembling tombstones, it was officially adopted in 1924. Its lower south summit can be reached by scrambling, but the true north summit requires technical climbing. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust east over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny as part of the Lewis Overthrust. Its runoff drains into tributaries of the Elbow River.
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