The Grassi Lakes (English Grassi Lakes ) are located near Banff National Park in Alberta , Canada . They were named after the miner, climber and park attendant Lorenzo (Lawrence) Grassi, who worked in the nearby town of Canmore from 1930 until his death in 1985 . The two lakes have no above-ground tributaries, but are fed by underground drainage . Geologically , they are located on rocks of the Flume Formation . The rocks on the lake, which are made of limestone as bio-thermal baths , were originally formed in the Devonian by stromatopores as reef bodies . They represent an outcrop of the overlying Cairn formation . Countless glowing algae on the ground produce a blue and green color.
Web links
Grassi Lakes in the Natural Resources Canada database
Individual evidence
Jump up ↑ D. Barson, R. Bartlett, F. Hein, M. Fowler, S. Grasby, C. Reidiger, J. Underschultz: Stop 5 - White Mans Gap Dam and Grassi Lakes . In: Geological Survey of Canada. Open File 3946: Hydrogeology of Heavy Oil and Tar Sand Deposits: Water Flow and Supply, Migration and Degradation . Natural Resources Canada, 2000 ( Google Books [accessed October 2, 2019]). (P. 31, 37)
