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Mount Brock is a 2,902-metre peak in Alberta's Opal Range within Kananaskis Country. Named officially in 1922 for Rear Admiral Osmond de Beauvoir Brock, who served on HMS Princess Royal at the 1916 Battle of Jutland, it reflects a wider Kananaskis naming pattern tied to people and ships from that First World War battle. The mountain is made of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny as the Rockies formed. Its first recorded ascent was in 1954 by P.J.B. Duffy and K. Ingold.
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