Large Structures in the Rocky Mountains Front Ranges and Foothills, Western Canada. By G. Rait

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Large asymmetric fold in the hanging wall of the Lewis thrust, Mt. Darrah, Flathead Range, Alberta/B.C. border, south of Crowsnest Pass. Note black band of Exshaw shales. The forest-covered hill and the grass-covered knob at base of main
spur down from peak host Proterozoic rocks.
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Chief Mountain and the Lewis Range (in the hanging wall of the Lewis Thrust in Montana),
looking south from Belly River, Alberta.
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Crowsnest Mountain, Alberta, looking north from Crowsnest Pass. Here, Palliser-Banff-Rundle rocks are thrust over Cretaceous rocks by the Lewis Thrust.
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The High Rock Range (Palliser-Banff-Rundle) above the Lewis
Thrust, Alberta-BC border, looking northwest.
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Famous Mt. Yamnuska in the easternmost Rockies. Here, Cambrian is thrust over Cretaceous along the McConnell Thrust. Looking north from the Trans-Canada Highway, Alberta.
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Not Canada, but classic: Normal-faulted (interpreted as Riedel
shears) Proterozoic carbonates and clastic rocks above Cretaceous mudstones along
the Lewis Thrust, north face of Marias Pass, Montana.
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Thrust-end fold at Mt Kidd: folded Rundle Group near northern termination of Lewis Thrust, Kananaskis valley, Alberta, Looking north.
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Frank Slide off face of Turtle Mountain (Banff, Rundle), Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
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Frank Slide off face of Turtle Mountain (Banff, Rundle), Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.
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Faulted anticline-syncline pair in Paleozoic strata,
Livingstone Range, southern Alberta Foothills. Frank Slide in background.
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Livingstone River anticline at Beaver Creek, Alberta, looking north: folded Rundle Group above a splay of the Livingstone Thrust.
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Folded Mississippian carbonates east of Wapiti Lake,
northeastern B.C., looking northeast.
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Folding and thrusting in Mississippian carbonates, Mt. Crum, northeastern B.C.; looking northwest.
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Thrust-carried anticline and repeated Mississippian Banff
and Rundle strata, north face of Mt. Crum, northeastern B.C.
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Large fold in Jurassic-Cretaceous coal measures at
Cardinal River Coals Mine, Alberta; looking south.
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Panorama across Lac des Arcs showing Cambrian to Mississippian carbonates.
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Thrusted folds in Mississippian Rundle carbonates, Ganoid
Ridge, northeastern B.C.; looking north.
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Large thrust-carried anticline in Mississippian-Triassic
strata on Mt Campion, Alberta Front Ranges near Grande Cache.
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Fault-cored fold in Jurassic-Cretaceous strata looking north from Mt. Le Hudette, Central Foothills, B.C.
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Folded and faulted Jurassic-Cretaceous strata across the
Pine River from Mt Bickford, Central Foothills, B.C.