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Mount Watson is a 2,955-metre summit in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, with The Marshall as its nearest higher neighbour. Officially named in 1924, it honors Sir David Watson. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock deposited in shallow Cambrian seas and later thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny, part of the geologic forces that shaped the surrounding Rockies. It lies in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and extreme winter temperatures, and its runoff feeds tributaries of the Mitchell River.
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