The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It...
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near the town of Thermopolis. From there, the river flows through the Bighorn Basin in north central Wyoming, passing through Thermopolis and Hot Springs...
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Rockies to the west, by the Bighorn Basin. Much of the land is contained within the Bighorn National Forest. The Bighorns were uplifted during the Laramide...
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community is located near the center of the Bighorn Basin with the Big Horn River east of the town. Basin's post office, built in 1919, is listed on the...
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The Bighorn Basin Dinosaur Project (BBDP) is a paleontological research and education group focusing on the Mesozoic ecosystems of the Bighorn Basin in...
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major role in the establishment of a Latter-day Saint settlement at Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. During one of his trips to Wyoming in 1901, he met and married...
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Elevation Science Institute (redirect from Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute)
The Elevation Science Institute, formerly known as the Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to paleontology...
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Yellowstone National Park along Paradise Valley, and the western side of the Bighorn Basin. The range borders the Beartooth Mountains to the north and the Wind...
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United States. It was named for a post office on the eastern side of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming by N.H. Darton in 1904. The sedimentary rocks of formation...
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of Cody in the U.S. state of Wyoming, rising from the floor of the Bighorn Basin. The mountain is composed of limestone and dolomite of Ordovician through...
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along the spine of the Bighorn Mountains, an outlying mountain range separated from the rest of the Rocky Mountains by Bighorn Basin. Elevations range from...
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the east. The range forms the boundary between the Bighorn Basin to the north and the Shoshone Basin to the south. The Wind River passes through the gap...
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The desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) that is native to the deserts of the United States'...
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and sporadic conglomerates. The formation underlies portions of the Bighorn Basin of Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties of Wyoming. Radiometric...
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Paleocene–Eocene boundary in astronomically-calibrated fluvial strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 534: 116044. Bibcode:2020E&PSL...
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Laramide orogeny (section Basins and mountains)
(Uinta Basin) to Montana and are best developed in Wyoming, with the Bighorn, Powder River, and Wind River being the largest. Topographically, the basin floors...
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and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural...
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founded the nonprofit organization Hands Across the Saddle (HATS) in the Bighorn Basin. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1979, Brimley began working to raise...
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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national recreation area established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction...
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County, Wyoming, United States. It is located in the Bighorn Basin in the western foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, approximately 26 miles (42 km) east of...
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Lowland Northern Highland Western Upland Regions of Wyoming include: Bighorn Basin Powder River Country Geography of the United States Historic regions...
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United States (WWF) Red Desert (Wyoming) Sagebrush steppe Bighorn Basin Great Divide Basin Hoekstra, J. M.; Molnar, J. L.; Jennings, M.; Revenga, C.;...
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Wind River Indian Reservation (category Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin)
Wind River Basin as winter range or as a route to hunting grounds in the Sweetwater, Bighorn Basin, Bighorn Mountains, or Powder River Basin. Coming from...
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River Basin is within the boundaries of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The basin is drained primarily by the Wind River and its tributaries. Bighorn Basin...
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(760 m) feet deep. The change in elevation between the Bighorn Basin and the Wind River Basin is about 300 feet (91 m). The southern mouth of the canyon...
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successor to several visionary schemes promoted by Cody to irrigate the Bighorn Basin and turn it from a semi-arid sagebrush-covered plain to productive agricultural...
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Washington Bighorn Mountain, in Nebraska Bighorn Mountains, in Wyoming and Montana Bighorn Mountains (California), in San Bernardino County Bighorn Basin, in...
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Deepest parts of the basin filled with the Mancos Shale Most of the Bighorn Basin filled with the Thermopolis Shale Appalachian Basin Foreland to the west...
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living during the early Eocene. Its fossils were discovered in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Sifrhippus would have looked quite different to modern horses...
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Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Willwood Formation, southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (2): e905481. Bibcode:2015JVPal...
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