Amber Mountain (Alberta)

Amber Mountain is a 2,565-metre (8,415-foot) mountain summit located in the Maligne Range of Jasper National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Amber Mountain was so named on account of amber-hued shale outcroppings.[3] The mountain was named in 1916 by Morrison P. Bridgland (1878-1948), a Dominion Land Surveyor who named many peaks in Jasper Park and the Canadian Rockies.[1] [4] The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1947 when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.[2] Its nearest higher peak is The Watchtower, 5.0 km (3.1 mi) to the east.[1] Amber Mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Cambrian period and pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[5]

Amber Mountain
Amber Mountain
Location of Amber Mountain in Alberta
Amber Mountain
Amber Mountain (Canada)
Highest point
Elevation2,565 m (8,415 ft)[1]
Prominence145 m (476 ft)[1]
Parent peakThe Watchtower (2971 m)[1]
ListingMountains of Alberta
Coordinates52°48′42″N 117°54′19″W[2]
Geography
LocationJasper National Park
Alberta
Parent rangeMaligne Range
Canadian Rockies
Topo mapNTS 83C13 Medicine Lake[2]
Geology
Age of rockCambrian
Type of rockShale
Climbing
Easiest routeHiking

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Amber Mountain is located in a subarctic climate with long, cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[6] Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C. Precipitation runoff from Amber Mountain drains into tributaries of the Athabasca River.

See also

References
  1. "Amber Mountain". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  2. "Amber Mountain". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
  3. Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928. p. 11.
  4. MacLaren, I.S. (2005). Mapper of Mountains M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies 1902-1930. With Eric Higgs, Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux. Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press. ISBN 0-88864-456-6.
  5. Gadd, Ben (2008), Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias
  6. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.
  • View from Amber Mountain looking northeast toward Centre Mountain, The Watchtower, and South Amber Mountain


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