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Mount Tuzo rises in the Canadian Rockies within the Valley of the Ten Peaks on the Continental Divide, marking both the Alberta–British Columbia border and the boundary between Banff and Kootenay national parks. Named in 1907 for Henrietta L. Tuzo after her first ascent, it also once appeared as Sagowa on an 1894 map, reflecting its place as the seventh peak in the chain. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic setting brings snowy winters, mild summers, and extreme cold.
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