Mont Megantic is a granite peak near the Quebec-Maine border in Canada, formed as an intrusive body of igneous rock roughly during the Early Cretaceous period, attributed by geologists to the same New England hotspot volcanic mechanism that produced the Monteregian Hills further north. The mountain reaches 1,110 meters, making it the highest point in Quebec accessible by road, and sits within a national park best known for its astronomical observatory, built atop the summit to take advantage of the mountain's height and the region's unusually dark skies.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Mont Megantic
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Mont Megantic
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Source Wikidata: Mont Megantic
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Sources
1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: WDPA protected areas at the location of Mont Megantic
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA feature: Mont-Mégantic National Park (Québec)Quote, WDPA feature: Mont-Mégantic National Park (Québec)
"desig_eng": "Quebec\u0027s national park"
Wikidata: Mont Megantic
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