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Glacier Peak rises in the Bow Range of the Canadian Rockies within Banff National Park on the Alberta-British Columbia border, along the Continental Divide between Mount Lefroy and Ringrose Peak. Named in 1894 by Samuel E.S. Allen for the glacier on its northern side, it stands in a stark alpine environment shaped by rock, ice, and weather. The mountain is formed from sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny that built much of the Rockies. Its subarctic climate brings long snowy winters, short mild summers, and severe cold.
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