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• Regions - West
• State – Montana
• Capital - Helena
• Latitude – 48.7°N
• Longitude – 113.72°W
Landforms
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• 700 miles of hiking trails.
• Valleys and mountains covered the land variety and plants.
• Canada's Waterton National Park share the border between the United States and Canada.
Culture
• There were many American Indians• American Indians have lived in Glacier
National Park for more then 10,000 years.• The Blackfeet, the Kalispell, the Kootenai,
the Salish, and the flathead were all early residents of the area.
• The Blackfeet controlled most of the land
Waterways
Some of the valleys filled with melted ice the melted ice turned into lakes.
Glaciers also changed the color of some lakes in the park.
The powder fell into some of the lakes that turned the lakes turquoise.
There are many bodies of water in Glacier National Park.
Rocks and Minerals
• There are many rocks and minerals in Glacier National Park.
• Rocks and soil under the water slowly hardened into thick layers of limestone, mudstone and sandstone.
• The rock layers began to crack and break the rocks piled up to create mountains.
• The majority of the rocks forming the mountains of Peace Park are the result of deposition of sediments.