The geology of Wyoming includes some of the oldest Archean rocks in North America, overlain by thick marine and terrestrial sediments formed during the...
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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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Morrison Formation (category Jurassic geology of Wyoming)
Jurassic Morrison Formation of southeastern Wyoming with implications for biostratigraphic correlations". Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs...
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The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. It was founded in March 1886, four years...
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Green River Formation (category Paleogene geology of Wyoming)
Geology, University of Wyoming, 30: 45 Lance Grande (1984), "Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna", Bulletin of...
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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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Retrieved 2008-03-09. Raymond E. Langden, Geology and geochemistry of the Highland uranium deposit, Wyoming Geological Association Earth Science Bulletin, Dec...
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Hell Creek Formation (category Cretaceous geology of Wyoming)
portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In Montana, the Hell Creek Formation overlies the Fox Hills Formation. The site of Pompeys...
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Powder River Basin (category Geology of Wyoming)
The Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles (320 km)...
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Yellowstone hotspot (category Paleogene geology of Wyoming)
(eds.). "The track of the Yellowstone hot spot: Volcanism, faulting, and uplift". Regional Geology of Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming. Memoir 179: 1–52...
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Sevier orogeny (category Cretaceous geology of Wyoming)
Lawton, T. F. (1986-05-01). "Time of initial thrusting in the Sevier orogenic belt, Idaho-Wyoming and Utah". Geology. 14 (5): 388–391. doi:10...
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southern margin of the growing craton. The Precambrian basement of Wyoming consists mainly of three major geologic terranes, the Archean Wyoming Craton or Province...
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Wyoming (/waɪˈoʊmɪŋ/ wye-OH-ming) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Montana to the north and...
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Bighorn Basin (category Geology of Wyoming)
"Basin-wide magnetostratigraphic framework for the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 119 (7–8): 848. Bibcode:2007GSAB..119..848C...
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Sundance Sea (category Jurassic geology of Wyoming)
Kuehn, Steve. "Geology of the Mesozoic Era: 245 to 66 million years ago" (PDF). Department of Physics, Physical Sciences, and Geology at California State...
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Laramie Mountains (redirect from Geology of the Laramie Mountains)
guide to the geology of Wyoming. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Wyoming. 55:1-90. Cary, M., 1917. Life zone investigations in Wyoming. Bulletin USDA...
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Cloverly Formation (category Cretaceous geology of Wyoming)
Formation is a geological formation of Early and Late Cretaceous age (Valanginian to Cenomanian stage) that is present in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado...
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Coal mining in Wyoming has long been a significant part of the state's economy. Wyoming has been the largest producer of coal in the United States since...
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Wind River Canyon (category Canyons and gorges of Wyoming)
ISBN 978-0-87842-216-6. Geology of Wyoming, Wind River Canyon Part One Geology of Wyoming, Wind River Canyon Part Two Geology of the Wind River Canyon, Wyoming v t e...
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Ogallala Aquifer (category Geology of Wyoming)
"Geohydrology of the High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming". U.S. Geological Survey...
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Wind River Basin (category Geology of Wyoming)
(PDF). United States Geological Survey. H. H. R. Sharkey (1956). "Structural Control of Oil Fields in Wind River Basin, Wyoming". AAPG Bulletin. 40 (4):...
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The University of Wyoming Geological Museum features a 45-foot-long Tyrannosaurus sculpture created by Samuel H. Knight. The sculpture was assembled and...
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Denver Basin (category Geology of Wyoming)
the D-J Basin, is a geologic structural basin centered in eastern Colorado in the United States, but extending into southeast Wyoming, western Nebraska...
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Illustrated geologic history of the Medicine Bow Mountains. The Geological Survey of Wyoming. Trumbull, L.W (1917). Petroleum Geology of Wyoming. G.G. Bovee...
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Woodside Formation (category Triassic geology of Wyoming)
is a geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Triassic period. Earth sciences portal Paleontology portal List of fossiliferous...
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Madison Group (category Carboniferous geology of Wyoming)
Equivalents of the Madison are named the Pahasapa Limestone in the Black Hills, Leadville Limestone (Colorado), Guernsey Limestone (Wyoming), and Redwall...
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Crowheart is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 120 at the 2020 census. Matthew Fox — Plays...
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crocodylomorph from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Wyoming, USA". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5: 287–295. doi:10.31711/giw.v5i0.32...
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Sundance Formation (category Jurassic geology of Wyoming)
"Palaeoecology of the marine reptiles of the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance Formation (Jurassic) of central Wyoming, USA". Geological Magazine. 151...
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county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States, known for its high elevation at 7,200 feet (2,200 m), railroad history, and as the home of the University...
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