Canoe Mountain

Canoe Mountain is a stratigraphic ridge in central Pennsylvania, United States, running east of the Allegheny Front and west of Tussey Mountain. It forms a continuous ridge with Brush Mountain to the west. To the south, across the water gap formed by the Frankstown Branch Juniata River, the ridgeline continues as Lock Mountain.

This article is about a landform in Pennsylvania. For the mountain in Canada, see Canoe Mountain (British Columbia).
Canoe Mountain
Highest point
Elevation2,180 ft (660 m)
Coordinates40°32′30″N 78°12′30″W
Geography
LocationBlair County, Pennsylvania and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Parent rangeAppalachian Mountains
Topo mapUSGS Spruce Creek (PA) Quadrangle, Frankstown (PA) Quadrangle
Climbing
First ascentunknown

The northern part of Canoe Mountain forms the border between Blair County and Huntingdon County.

Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 166 lies on Brush Mountain south of Sinking Hollow and on Canoe Mountain and the valley between.[1]

Geology

Canoe Mountain is in the western part of the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian Mountains. Tussey Mountain, to the east, is made up of Paleozoic rocks, consisting of Ordovician Bald Eagle Formation (sandstone), Juniata Formation (shale), and Silurian Tuscarora Formation (Quartzite) that were folded during the Appalachian orogeny in the Permian period, then eroded down to their present form.[2]

The Tuscarora Quartzite is more resistant to erosion than the Bald Eagle Sandstone, and both are more resistant than the Juniata formation between them or the other formations stratigraphically above and below them. The two sandstones thus form a double ridge line with the harder Tuscarora at the crest.

Canoe Mountain and the southern spur of Brush Mountain form a syncline.

See also: Geology of Bald Eagle Mountain

References
  1. Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 166, retrieved 14 November 2018
  2. Berg, Thomas M., and Dodge, Christine M., eds., Map 61, Atlas of Preliminary Geologic Quadrangle Maps of Pennsylvania, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, 1981 (Spruce Creek Quadrangle, Frankstown Quadrangle)
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