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    The geology of the Rocky Mountains is that of a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins. Collectively these make up the...
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    British Mountains/Brooks Range in Yukon and Alaska (which are all included as the "Arctic Rockies" in the United States' definition of the Rocky Mountains system)...
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    The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch...
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    Laramide orogeny (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    the drag that it caused was a broad belt of mountains, some of which were the progenitors of the Rocky Mountains. Part of the proto-Rocky Mountains would...
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    within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east and Grand Lake to the west. The eastern...
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    large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains. The Trench is both visually and cartographically a striking...
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    The Southern Rocky Mountains are a major subregion of the Rocky Mountains of North America located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming...
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    The Never Summer Mountains (from Arapaho: Ni-chebe-chii) are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in north central Colorado in the United States consisting...
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    Triple Divide Peak (Montana) (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    located in the Lewis Range, part of the Rocky Mountains in North America. The peak is a feature of Glacier National Park in the state of Montana in the United...
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    Grand Mesa (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    Retrieved March 24, 2013. Halka Chronic (1980). Roadside Geology of Colorado. Missoula Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Co. ISBN 0-87842-105-X. Wikimedia...
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    Green River Formation (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    during the Eocene resulted from mountain building and uplift of the Rocky Mountains (late Cretaceous Sevier orogeny and the Paleogene Laramide orogeny)....
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    tables of major mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic...
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    Powder River Basin (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    (mainly east of the Rocky Mountains) for generating electricity. The mines work in areas where the stripping ratio is between 1:1 (i.e. one ton of rock for...
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    southwestern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the contiguous United States...
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    Denver Basin (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. The basin consists of a large asymmetric syncline of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic...
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    Morrison Formation (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    buried under the prairie to the east, and much of its western paleogeographic extent was eroded during exhumation of the Rocky Mountains. It was named...
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    The geology of the Grand Teton area consists of some of the oldest rocks and one of the youngest mountain ranges in North America. The Teton Range, partly...
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    Mountain Front, which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. It is situated 26 miles northwest of the town of Choteau, in the Lewis and Clark National Forest...
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    Columbia Icefield (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    The Columbia Icefield is the largest ice field in North America's Rocky Mountains. Located within the Canadian Rocky Mountains astride the Continental...
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    Dakota Hogback (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    The Dakota Hogback is a long hogback ridge at the eastern fringe of the Rocky Mountains that extends north-south from southern Wyoming through Colorado...
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    Commons has media related to Little Rocky Mountains. Geology and Physiography of the Little Rocky Mountains, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada...
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    over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Mountains portal Geology of the Rocky Mountains Geography of Alberta Alberta's Rockies "Protection...
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    Mancos Shale (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    basal contacts and gradational upper contacts. Whereas in the plains east of the Rocky Mountains certain mappable marine shales are identified as formations...
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    The Rocky Mountain Front is a somewhat unified geologic and ecosystem area in North America where the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains meet the plains...
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    Lance Formation (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    (1 January 2002). "Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado". Rocky Mountain Geology. 37 (2): 237–254. doi:10.2113/11. Retrieved 19 November...
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    summer. Mountains portal Montana portal Mountains and mountain ranges of Glacier National Park (U.S.) Geology of the Rocky Mountains "Red Crow Mountain, Montana"...
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    Uranium mining in Wyoming (category Geology of the Rocky Mountains)
    JSTOR 970850. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2008-03-09. Raymond E. Langden, Geology and geochemistry of the Highland uranium deposit...
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  • History of Rocky Mountain National Park began when Paleo-Indians traveled along what is now Trail Ridge Road to hunt and forage for food. Ute and Arapaho...
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