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Colonels Mountain (New Brunswick)

Coordinates: 47°12′13″N 66°23′50″W / 47.20361°N 66.39722°W / 47.20361; -66.39722
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Tor on Colonels Mountain, NB, Canada (IR Walker 1986)
Colonels Mountain
Tors on Colonels Mountain (IR Walker 1988).
Highest point
Elevation600 m (2,000 ft)[citation needed]
Coordinates47°12′13″N 66°23′50″W / 47.20361°N 66.39722°W / 47.20361; -66.39722
Geography
LocationNorthumberland County, New Brunswick
Parent rangeAppalachian Mountains
Topo mapNTS 21O/01
Climbing
Easiest routeHike

Colonels Mountain is a mountain in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It lies adjacent to Big Bald Mountain, at the headwaters of the Northwest Miramichi River and the Sevogle River[1].

The mountain top has been weathered to generate a series of mushroom-shaped granitic tors. Because the weathering process which forms tors is normally very slow, these features have been interpreted as indicating that part of northern New Brunswick escaped the last, Wisconsinan glaciation[2]. It has been suggested, however, that the mountain lay near the centre of cold-based ice; these erosional remnants thus escaped the scouring action of the glaciers.

References

  1. ^ Geographical Names of Canada http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
  2. ^ Rampton, V. N., Gauthier, R. C., Thibault, J., and Seaman, A. A. 1984. Quaternary geology of New Brunswick. Geological Survey of Canada. Memoir 416.