In geology and geomorphology, a hogback or hog's back is a long, narrow ridge or a series of hills with a narrow crest and steep slopes of nearly equal...

Hogback may refer to: Grand Hogback, geological formation in Northwestern Colorado Hogback (sculpture), Anglo-Scandinavian stone tomb markers found in...

the creation of the hogback. While the hogback was created during the Laramide Orogeny, the geologic strata comprising the hogback are much older. For...

The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long, curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield...

The Murrieta Hogbacks are Miocene basalt capped granitic hogbacks located in northeastern Murrieta on the southern end of the Temescal Mountains of Riverside...

The geology of the Rocky Mountains is that of a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins. Collectively these make up the...

no. 1985/30. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Canberra, Australia. 55 pp. ISBN 978-0858347465 Fairbridge, R.W. (1968) Hogback and Flatiron. In R.W. Fairbridge...

Island, Hanson Ridge, Spike Cape, Bay of Sails, Gneiss Point, Marble Point, Hogback Hill to Cape Bernacchi, Hjorth Hill and Mount Coleman to the south. The...

Dinosaur Ridge is a segment of the Dakota Hogback in the Morrison Fossil Area National Natural Landmark located in Jefferson County, Colorado, near the...

of hogbacks. The Kissing Camels formation is atop the nearest hogback on the right. A view of Cathedral Valley showing some of its unusual hogback formations...

units. Eroded monoclines leave steeply tilted resistant rock called a hogback and the less steep version is a cuesta. Great tension developed in the...

Mount Shank is located southwest of Hogback. "Hogback". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of...

Hogback Mountain or Hogsback Mountain is a large hill northeast of Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States. Hogback was named because from Klamath Falls,...

Pennsylvanian rocks. Red Hill runs through the center of the valley as a hogback ridge of tilted Cretaceous and Jurassic sedimentary rocks. Gold mining...

Hogback Ridge is a 6,135-foot (1,870 m) glaciated mountain ridge located in the Chugach Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. This landform is situated...

Colorado State Natural Area and Geological Points of Interest. The Lyons and Lykins formations outcrop in a smaller hogback. Farther west, the Fountain Formation...

Hays Limestone member forms flatirons or secondary hogbacks on the east slope of the Dakota Hogback. The non-chalky shales of the Pierre Formation formed...

Colorado Dakota Hogback "Geologic Unit: Woodbury". National Geologic Database. Geolex — Significant Publications. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved...

erosion. Dip slopes form the backslopes of cuestas, homoclinal ridges, hogbacks, and flatirons. The frontslopes of such ridges consist of either an escarpment...

"Jointing in Sedimentary Rocks along the Grand Hogback Monocline, Colorado". The Journal of Geology. 75 (3): 340–350. Bibcode:1967JG.....75..340M. doi:10...

prominent, linear mountains in the Valley and Ridge province are classic hogback topographic features. The Appalachian foreland of Georgia is an excellent...

Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-860958-6. Fairbridge, R. W. (1968). "Hogback and Flatiron". In Fairbridge, R. W. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Geomorphology...

the Dakota Hogback. Rapid City's "Westside" is located in the Red Valley between the foothills of the Black Hills proper and the Dakota Hogback, so named...

ridges are subdivided into cuestas, flatirons, homoclinal ridges, and hogbacks. Reef A term applied by early explorers and settlers in the western United...

in many places throughout the Rockies, and are shown along the Dakota Hogback, an early Cretaceous sandstone formation running along the eastern flank...

backcountry skiers, hikers, and snowshoers. "Hogback Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of...

the Unkpapa sandstone. The outermost feature of the dome stands out as a hogback ridge. The ridge is made out of the Lakota Formation and the Fallriver...

and return to the highway. The drive sits on the top of Skyline Ridge, a hogback composed of upturned Dakota sandstone. Outcrops of the Morrison and the...

3133/sir20185140. Retrieved 2019-07-23. "Upsal Hogback". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the...

The park includes great examples of exposed Precambrian to Late Mesozoic hogback, monolithic and spire formations from the Permian, Pennsylvanian and Cretaceous...