Mount Tecumseh (Alberta)

Mount Tecumseh is a 2,547-metre-high (8,356 ft) mountain summit located in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises nearly 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) above Crowsnest Lake in three kilometres (1.9 mi).

Tecumseh lies one kilometre (0.62 mi) east of the Continental Divide, and the mountain's slightly lower peak, named Phillipps Peak (2,506 metres [8,222 ft]), lies directly on the divide above both Crowsnest Pass and Phillipps Pass.

[6] Mount Tecumseh is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.

Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks three miles (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km) long over younger rock of the cretaceous period during the Laramide orogeny.