Mount Tuzo

{{Short description|Mountain peak in Alberta/British Columbia, Canada}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Tuzo

| other_name = Shagowa

| photo = Mount Tuzo, ne.jpg

| photo_caption = Northeast aspect, right

| elevation_m = 3246

| elevation_ref = {{cite crdb|id=1435|name=Mount Tuzo|access-date=2019-09-13}}{{cite opentopomap|Mount xyz|51.301667|-116.228333|2023-09-14}}

| prominence_m = 210

| prominence_ref = {{cite bivouac|id=1576|name=Mount Tuzo|access-date=2019-09-13}}

| range = Bow Range
Canadian Rockies

| parent_peak =

| listing = {{unbulleted list|

Mountains of Alberta|

Mountains of British Columbia}}

| country = Canada

| region_type = Provinces

| region = {{enum|Alberta|British Columbia}}

| part_type = Protected areas

| part = {{unbulleted list|Banff National Park|Kootenay National Park}}

| map = Alberta#British Columbia#Canada

| map_caption = Location in Alberta##Location in British Columbia##Location in Canada

| label_position = right

| coordinates = {{coord|51.3016666|N|116.2283333|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite cgndb|id=IAOVR|name=Mount Tuzo (Alberta)|access-date=2019-09-13}}

| topo_maker = NTS | topo_map = {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|N|8}}

| first_ascent = 15 September 1906
Henrietta Tuzo, Christian Kaufmann

| easiest_route =

}}

Mount Tuzo is a mountain located within the Valley of the Ten Peaks in the Canadian Rockies, along the Continental Divide, which forms the provincial boundary between British Columbia and Alberta in Western Canada. It also lies on the boundary shared by Banff National Park and Kootenay National Park.

The mountain was named in 1907 after its first ascendant, Henrietta L. Tuzo. Tuzo was a charter member of the Alpine Club of Canada.{{cite bcgnis|id=24957|title=Mount Tuzo|access-date=2023-09-14}} On his 1894 map, Samuel Allen had named the peak "Shagowa", which is the Nakoda word for seven as the mountain is seventh in order from south to north of the ten peaks.

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Geology

Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Tuzo is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.{{Belyea-Banff-NP}} Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.{{cite web|url=http://www.bengadd.com/Downloads/Geology%20of%20the%20Rockies%20and%20Columbias%202008.pdf|title=Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias|last=Gadd|first=Ben|year=2008|access-date=2010-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402151305/http://www.bengadd.com/Downloads/Geology%20of%20the%20Rockies%20and%20Columbias%202008.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-02|url-status=dead}}

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Tuzo is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.{{cite journal | author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 | pages = 1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P | issn = 1027-5606| url = https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00298818/file/hessd-4-439-2007.pdf }} Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C.

See also

Gallery

File:DSC2528 Morraine Lake Banff National Park, Alberta.jpg|Tuzo (right of center) from Moraine Lake

File:Mt. Tuzo, Eiffel Lake.jpg|Northwest aspect from Eiffel Lake

References