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Drumheller / d r ʌ m ˈ h ɛ l ər / is a town on the Red Deer River in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located 110 kilometres (68 mi) northeast of Calgary and 97 kilometres (60 mi) south of Stettler .
The Drumheller is a large coal field located in the western part of Canada in Alberta. Drumheller represents one of the largest coal reserve in Canada having estimated reserves of 564 billion tonnes of coal .
[2] [3] It takes its name from Horseshoe Canyon, an area of badlands near Drumheller. The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is part of the Edmonton Group. In its type section (Red Deer River Valley at Drumheller), it is ~250 metres (820 ft) thick, but further west the formation is older and thicker, exceeding 500 metres (1,600 ft) near Calgary. [4]
Heavy rains in early June 2012 caused a similar but larger leak on a Plains Midstream Canada 46-year-old pipeline on a Red Deer River tributary, Jackson Creek, Alberta near Gleniffer Lake and Dickson Dam, [18] which spilled approximately 1,000 and 3,000 barrels (160,000 and 480,000 L; 35,000 and 105,000 imp gal; 42,000 and 126,000 US gal) of ...
Horseshoe Canyon is a region of badlands surrounded by prairie in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located about 11 miles (17 km) west of the town of Drumheller , Alberta , along Highway 9 . The canyon gets its name from its horseshoe shape, defined by two coulees that flow into the Kneehill Creek, a tributary of the Red Deer River .
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According to the 2019 report Canada's Changing Climate Report, [1] which was commissioned by Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada's annual average temperature over land has warmed by 1.7 C since 1948. The rate of warming is even higher in Canada's North, in the Prairies and northern British Columbia. [2]
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (RTMP; often referred to as the Royal Tyrrell Museum) is a palaeontology museum and research facility in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The museum was named in honour of Joseph Burr Tyrrell , and is situated within a 12,500-square-metre-building (135,000 sq ft) designed by BCW Architects at Midland ...