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Silverhorn Mountain is a 2,911-metre peak in Banff National Park’s Mistaya River valley, visible from the Icefields Parkway east of Mount Patterson. Named in 1899 by Rev. Charles Lathrop Noyes and formally adopted in 1924, it is part of the Canadian Rockies’ striking roadside scenery. The mountain is made of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. In a subarctic climate with severe winter cold, its waters drain west to the Mistaya River and east to Dolomite Creek, linking it to two different river systems.
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