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Abraham Mountain is a 2,820-metre summit in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, rising above Abraham Lake in the North Saskatchewan River valley near Allstones Peak. It is named for Silas Abraham, a Stoney man from the Kootenay Plains and Saskatchewan River valley who was born in 1871 and became known as a guide for Mary Schäffer’s 1906 and 1907 explorations as well as for Martin Nordegg. The mountain and nearby lake preserve his name in a landscape connected to his knowledge of the region. Formed of sedimentary rock from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, it was shaped by eastward thrusting during the Laramide orogeny, and its runoff drains into Abraham Lake.
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