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Tilted Mountain is a 2,591-metre summit in Banff National Park, Alberta, within the Canadian Rockies' Sawback Range, with Lychnis Mountain as its nearest higher neighbor. James F. Porter named it in 1911 for its tilted rock layers, and the Geographical Names Board of Canada formally adopted the name in 1924. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas and later thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Nearby Skoki Formation limestone contains fossils such as brachiopods, gastropods, cephalopods, trilobites, conodonts, and echinoderm fragments. Its subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and sometimes extreme winter temperatures and wind chills.
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