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Devon Mountain is a
summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used only for ...
located North of the Clearwater River in
Banff National Park Banff National Park is Canada, Canada's first National Parks of Canada, national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rockies, Alberta's Rocky Mountains, west of Calgary, Banff encompasses of mountainous ter ...
,
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,
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. Devon Mountain was so named on account of
Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...
rocks in the area.


See also

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List of mountains in the Canadian Rockies A list of highest mountains and peaks in the Canadian Rockies over is shown below. Sources for the elevation, prominence and first ascent can be found in their respective pages and/or Wikidata Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multiling ...


References

Mountains of Banff National Park Three-thousanders of Alberta Alberta's Rockies {{AlbertaRockies-geo-stub