Cameron Falls This waterfall is in Waterton Lakes National Park, which sits to the north just across
Cameron FallsThis waterfall is in Waterton Lakes National Park, which sits to the north just across the US/Canada border from Glacier National Park. Because of its easy accessibility, it is one of the most photographed locations in the park.The waterfall is twisted from side to side by the dipping metamorphic rocks. The rocks here are 1.5 billion years old; sediments deposited along the edge of the ocean that sat along the western edge of the growing Laurentian continent.These sediments sit close to igneous and metamorphic rocks that are even older, part of the Canadian Shield – the oldest, highly metamorphosed rocks at the core of the North American continent.The shape of the mountain was carved by glaciers moving through this area during the large glacial advances during the past million years. Those glaciers shaped the location of the Cameron River and the water flow paths that create these waterfalls over the sharp, resistant old rocks.-JBBImage credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/raptortheangel/15270683636Read more:https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100023613/1100100023624http://www.mywaterton.ca/CameronFalls.cfm -- source link
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