6 September 2013

Friday fold: Kananaskis Trail, Alberta

Posted by Callan Bentley

I’ve been thinking about the Canadian Rockies this week, since I just settled on dates for next summer’s Regional Field Geology of the Canadian Rockies course.

In searching about for an appropriate Friday fold, it occurred to me that I could show you this one:

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That’s a mountain peak on the Kananaskis Trail, a lovely road cutting through the mountain wilderness north of Waterton Lakes and south of Banff and the Trans-Canada Highway. It’s also the road where Mount Kidd is found.

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If we zoom in to the mountain peak in the middle of that shot, we can see some awesome funkiness.

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Allow me to add some annotations for you…

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A gleaming sight, eh? I love how the snow chute follows the trace of the bedding plane. Can’t wait to show this directly to a new group of students next July.

Happy Friday!