• The Lewis Overthrust is a geologic thrust fault structure of the Rocky Mountains found within the bordering national parks of Glacier in Montana, United...
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    extreme southern Alberta, Canada. It was formed as a result of the Lewis Overthrust, a geologic thrust fault resulted in the overlying of younger Cretaceous...
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    Chief Mountain (category Lewis Range)
    the Rocky Mountain Front, a 200 miles (320 km) long overthrust fault, known as the Lewis Overthrust, which extends from central Montana into southern Alberta...
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    Glacier National Park (U.S.) (category Lewis Range)
    forced eastward up and over much younger rock strata. Known as the Lewis Overthrust, these sedimentary rocks are considered to have some of the finest...
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    Road Logan Pass Marias Pass Geologic formations Appekunny Formation Lewis Overthrust Belt Supergroup Bighorn sheep Canadian lynx Grizzly bear Elk Gray wolf...
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    Triple Divide Peak (Montana) (category Lewis Range)
    the Atlantic's Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans. The Lewis Range was formed in the Lewis Overthrust, some 59-75 million years ago, when an enormous slab...
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  • Active 2010 Mexicali M7.2) Laptev Sea Rift Arctic Ocean Rift zone Lewis Overthrust Montana, United States Thrust Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene Liquiñe-Ofqui...
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    Castle Reef (category Lewis and Clark National Forest)
    and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 280 miles (450 km) from Mount Kidd in Alberta, south to...
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    south to about Helena is heavily deformed by faulting, folding, and overthrusting. During the Sevier orogeny mountain-building event about 115 and 55...
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    Sawtooth Ridge (category Landforms of Lewis and Clark County, Montana)
    and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 280 miles (450 km) from Mount Kidd in Alberta, south to...
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  • through Three Forks, Whitehall the Highland Mountains, and Armstead. The Lewis Overthrust is a geologic thrust fault structure of the Rocky Mountains found within...
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    Range was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slap of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks three miles (4.8 km)...
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    Choteau Mountain (category Lewis and Clark National Forest)
    and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 280 miles (450 km) from Mount Kidd in Alberta, south to...
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  • the Rocky Mountain Front, a 200-mile-long (320 km) overthrust fault, known as the Lewis Overthrust, which extends from central Montana into southern Alberta...
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    This apparent violation of the law of superposition was caused by the Lewis Overthrust. The Belt Supergroup rocks host a variety of economically significant...
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    and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 450 km (280 mi) from Mount Kidd south to Steamboat Mountain...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    the Waterton sediments are characterized by a single overlap. The Lewis Overthrust allowed sediment Proterozoic to move as a unit, more or less, horizontally...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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  • a stratigraphical unit of Cenomanian to early Campanian age in the Lewis overthrust in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of rocks three miles (4.8 km) thick,...
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    Going-to-the-Sun Mountain (category Lewis Range)
    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    Old Man of the Hills (category Lewis and Clark National Forest)
    and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 280 miles (450 km) from Mount Kidd in Alberta, south to...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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    Old Baldy (Montana) (category Lewis and Clark National Forest)
    and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. The Lewis Overthrust extends over 280 miles (450 km) from Mount Kidd in Alberta, south to...
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    rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick...
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