beargonewild
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ORIGINAL: kazzaslave That's a nice idea fluffy but no, kazza's apartment faces out onto the street. On the plus side, she has a spectacular view of Mount Royal, Montreal's very own mountain (manmade) which is right in the middle of the city. http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_my_p_0/0_my_photographs_0_montreal_fall.htm#photographs_and_paintings Erm....are you sure about that kazza? Cause I just checked a couple of my old geolgy textbooks from college and that's not what I read! The mountain is not a traditional volcano per se. However, it is the deep extension of a vastly eroded ancient volcanic complex, which was probably active about 125 million years ago. The mountain was created when the North American Plate moved westward over the New England hotspot, along with the other mountains of the Monteregian Hills. The magma intruded into the sedimentary rocks underneath the area, producing at least eight igneous stocks. The main rock type is a gabbro composed of pyroxene, olivine and variable amounts of plagioclase. During and after the main stage of intrusion, the gabbros and surrounding rocks were intruded by a series of volcanic dikes and sills. Subsequently, the surrounding softer sedimentary rock was eroded, leaving behind the resistant igneous rock that forms the mountain.
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