Mont Rougemont
{{Short description|Mountain in Quebec, Canada}}
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| name = Mont Rougemont
Wigwômedenek
| photo = Mont Rougemont, Quebec, Canada.jpg
| photo_caption = Mont Rougemont seen from Saint-Jean-Baptiste
| elevation_m = 390
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| location = Rougemont, 18 kilometres southwest of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
| range = Monteregian Hills
| coordinates = {{coord|45|28|36|N|73|03|17|W|type:mountain_region:CA}}
| topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|31|H|6}}
| age = Early Cretaceous
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Mont Rougemont ({{IPA|fr|mɔ̃ ʁuʒmɔ̃}}; Abenaki: Wigwômedenek{{Cite web |url=http://www.rougemont.ca/upload/rougemont/editor/asset/1-%20%23%20%C3%89tienne%20Exupert%20de%20Rougemont.pdf |access-date=2017-09-24 }}{{dead link|date=July 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}) is part of the Monteregian Hills in southern Quebec. It is composed of igneous rock and hornfels. The summit stands {{convert|366|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} above sea level. The mountain is mostly covered with sugar maple-dominated forest. Apple orchards and vineyards are cultivated on many of the lower slopes, and much of the fruit is used to make cider.
Geology
The igneous material is composed almost entirely of mafic and ultramafic rock such as gabbro and olivine-bearing clinopyroxenite. These rocks outcrop in some places and are otherwise covered by dark brown stony loam, sandy loam or loamy sand which has been mapped as Montarville series.https://sis.agr.gc.ca/siscan/publications/surveys/pq/pq49b/pq49b_report.pdf Étude pédologique
du comté de Rouville, Québec, 1999. Mont Rougemont might be the deep extension of a vastly eroded ancient volcanic complex, which was probably active about 125 million years ago.[http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05stepstones/background/geologic_history/geologic_history.html A Hundred-Million Year History of the Corner Rise and New England Seamounts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503173640/http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05stepstones/background/geologic_history/geologic_history.html |date=2006-05-03 }} Retrieved on 2007-08-01 The mountain was created when the North American Plate moved westward over the New England hotspot, along with the other mountains of the Monteregian Hills. It forms part of the vast Great Meteor hotspot track.
External links
- {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080518132447/http://www.apddmr.ca/ Ass. pour la protection et le développement durable du mont Rougemont (APDDMR)]
- {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009164637/http://www.nature-action.qc.ca/rouge-plan.html Nature Action Quebec]
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.ouellette001.com/Quebec_en_photos/16_Monteregie/Rouville/Rougemont_001.htm Quebec in photographs Montérégie]
References
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{{Mountains of Quebec}}
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Category:Mountains of Quebec under 1000 metres
Category:Igneous petrology of Quebec
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