Mount Daly
Appearance
Mount Daly | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,148 m (10,328 ft)[1] |
Prominence | 408 m (1,339 ft)[2] |
Listing | Mountains of Alberta Mountains of British Columbia |
Coordinates | 51°31′07″N 116°23′44″W / 51.51861°N 116.39556°W[3] |
Geography | |
Location | Alberta British Columbia |
Parent range | Park Ranges |
Topo map | NTS 82N9 Hector Lake[3] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1903 J.H Batcheller, C.E. Fay, E. Tewes, C. Bohren, C. Hasler Sr. |
Mount Daly is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1898 by Charles E. Fay after Charles P. Daly, a geographer.[1][2][4] Mount Niles is located two km southwest of Daly.
Geology
[edit]Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Daly is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[5] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[6]
Climate
[edit]Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Daly is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[7] Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Mount Daly". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
- ^ a b "Mount Daly". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
- ^ a b "Mount Daly (BC)". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
- ^ Place-names of Alberta. Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada. 1928. p. 41.
- ^ Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
- ^ Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
- ^ 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.