The Nikanassin Range is a group of
mountain range
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s in the
Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rockies () or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains. It is the easternmost part of the Canadian Cordillera, w ...
on the eastern edge of
Jasper National Park
Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning . It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site ...
in
Alberta
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,
Canada
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. It is developed south-east of the
Fiddle Range
The Fiddle Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located south of Highway 16 on the east border of Jasper National Park, Canada.
The range was so named on account of noises produced by blowing wind.
This range includes the following ...
, and one of the front ranges. ''Nikanassin'' means "first range" in
Cree
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.
The range has an extent of ,
with a length of from north-west to south-east, and a width of . Its highest point is
Blackface Mountain, with a height of .
[
Numerous seams of ]coal
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Coal i ...
are found in this range, with past and present mines at Cadomin
Cadomin is a Hamlet (place), hamlet in west-central Alberta, Canada, within Yellowhead County. It is along the McLeod River in the Rocky Mountain Foothills, foothills of the Rocky Mountains, approximately south of Hinton, Alberta, Hinton near ...
, Mountain Park and Luscar.stratigraphical
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Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithostrati ...
unit of late Jurassic
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age that has its stratotype in this region.
Peaks
Gallery
Cardinalrivervalley.jpg, Nikanassin Range over the foothills
See also
* Ranges of the Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rockies are a segment of the North American Rocky Mountains found in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
List of ranges
There is no universally accepted hierarchical division of the Canadian Rockies into subranges. ...
References
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