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    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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  • 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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    (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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