The Wind River Formation is a geologic formation in Wyoming in the Wind River Basin. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period. A recent...
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Wyoming Wind River Canyon, a canyon made from tectonic plate shifting in Wyoming Wind River Formation, a geologic formation in Wyoming Wind River Indian...
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The Wind River Basin or Shoshone Basin is a semi-arid intermontane foreland basin in central Wyoming, United States. It is bounded by Laramide uplifts...
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vertical formation just off the overlook. A cave formation in Hell's Half Acre. Interpretive sign marking Hell's Half Acre. Wind River Formation exposed...
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The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day...
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520267°N 108.180442°W / 43.520267; -108.180442 Wind River Canyon is a scenic Wyoming canyon on the Wind River. It is located between the towns of Shoshoni...
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structures can be damaged or destroyed. Winds can shape landforms, via a variety of aeolian processes such as the formation of fertile soils, for example loess...
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the University of Kansas. The strata was a Lysite member of the Wind River Formation. Martinelli was studying paleontology at the University of Barcelona...
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Uranium mining in Wyoming (section Powder River Basin)
uraninite, and coffinite in fluvial arkosic sandstones in the upper Wind River Formation of Eocene age. Mining was mostly by open pit, although there were...
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plant grows on barren, sandy and gravelly terrain on the Wind River Formation in the Wind River Basin. It grows on sandstone and limestone substrates. It...
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the formation is part of the fourth phase of herbivore expansion spanning about 115 Ma from the Aptian to Holocene, and correlated with the Wind River and...
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The Green River Formation is a geological formation located in the Intermountain West of the United States, in the states of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming...
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calcite formations known as boxwork, as well as its frostwork. Approximately 95 percent of the world's discovered boxwork formations are found in Wind Cave...
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monadnock Mesa Peak Promontory River cliff Sea cliff Stack Stone run Tor Here is a incomplete list of rock formations by continent. Geghard Garni Gorge...
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Loess Hills (category Missouri River)
The Loess Hills are a formation of wind-deposited loess soil in the westernmost parts of Iowa and Missouri, and the easternmost parts of Nebraska and...
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Washakie Formation Paleogene White River Formation Paleogene Wiggins Formation Paleogene Willwood Formation Paleogene Wind River Formation Paleogene...
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Daniel A. Guthrie (1967.) "The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming." Memoirs of the Southern California Academy...
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named Ototriton in 1919 on the basis of a single skull from the Wind River Formation in Wyoming, misinterpreting it as the skull of a salamander. Unlike...
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Man-Pupu-nyor, between the Ilych and Pechora rivers. They are also known as the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations and the Poles of the Komi Republic. Deemed...
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prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends...
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Aeolian processes (redirect from Wind erosion)
requiring abundant sand, powerful winds, and a lack of vegetation for their formation. In parts of Antarctica wind-blown snowflakes that are technically...
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bay and river come from a rock formation near the river's mouth that resembles the face of an old woman. List of Ontario rivers "Old Woman River". Geographical...
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The Santa Ana winds, also sometimes called the devil winds, are strong, extremely dry downslope winds that originate inland and affect coastal Southern...
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Erosion (redirect from River erosion)
rainfall; bedrock wear in rivers; coastal erosion by the sea and waves; glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater...
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The Willwood Formation is a sedimentary sequence deposited during the late Paleocene to early Eocene, or Clarkforkian, Wasatchian and Bridgerian in the...
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Tatman, Willwood, Wind River, Pass Peak and Indian Meadows Formations, Wyoming Challis Volcanics Formation, Idaho Golden Valley Formation, North Dakota Claron...
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hypercarnivorous oxyaenid (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the Middle Eocene of the Wind River Formation, Natrona County, Wyoming" (PDF). Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural...
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Daniel A. Guthrie (1967.) "The mammalian fauna of the Lysite Member, Wind River Formation (early Eocene) of Wyoming." Memoirs of the Southern California Academy...
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Tropical rainforest climate (redirect from Tropical trade wind climate)
latitudes than the equatorial climates, the wind is almost permanent which incidentally explains why rainforest formations are impoverished compared to those of...
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The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile...
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