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Scarab Peak is a 2,918-metre mountain in the Canadian Rockies on the Continental Divide at the Alberta-British Columbia border, where Banff and Kootenay national parks meet. Part of the Ball Range, it was named in 1922 by Arthur O. Wheeler of the Interprovincial Boundary Survey as part of an Egyptian-themed group of nearby place names inspired by the beauty of the Egypt Lake area. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. It stands today in a protected subarctic alpine landscape with severe winters and mild summers.
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