Folds and geological structures of the northern Bighorn Basin. Astronaut photo from ISS, 2021.Satellite image of the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, with the bordering ranges labelledPower lines crossing the Bighorn Basin's plains
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 is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south. It is drained to the north by tributaries of the Bighorn River, which enters the basin from the south, through a gap between the Owl Creek and Bridger Mountains, as the Wind River, and becomes the Bighorn as it enters the basin. The region is semi-arid,[1] receiving only 6–10 in (15–25 cm) of rain annually.
The largest cities in the basin include the Wyoming towns of Cody, Thermopolis, Worland, and Powell. Sugar beets, pinto beans, sunflowers, barley, oats, corn and alfalfa hay are grown on irrigated farms in the region.
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The BighornBasin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It...
near the town of Thermopolis. From there, the river flows through the BighornBasin in north central Wyoming, passing through Thermopolis and Hot Springs...
Rockies to the west, by the BighornBasin. Much of the land is contained within the Bighorn National Forest. The Bighorns were uplifted during the Laramide...
The BighornBasin Dinosaur Project (BBDP) is a paleontological research and education group focusing on the Mesozoic ecosystems of the BighornBasin in...
and sporadic conglomerates. The formation underlies portions of the BighornBasin of Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties of Wyoming. Radiometric...
The Elevation Science Institute, formerly known as the BighornBasin Paleontological Institute, is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to paleontology...
United States. It was named for a post office on the eastern side of the BighornBasin in Wyoming by N.H. Darton in 1904. The sedimentary rocks of formation...
Yellowstone National Park along Paradise Valley, and the western side of the BighornBasin. The range borders the Beartooth Mountains to the north and the Wind...
the east. The range forms the boundary between the BighornBasin to the north and the Shoshone Basin to the south. The Wind River passes through the gap...
and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the BighornBasin area, Wyoming and Montana". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural...
(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...
cycle sediment, the Archean core of the Bighorn uplift was exposed and shedding sediment into the Powder River Basin during time of deposition of the Wasatch...
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'...
Deepest parts of the basin filled with the Mancos Shale Most of the BighornBasin filled with the Thermopolis Shale Appalachian Basin Foreland to the west...
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national recreation area established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction...
along the spine of the Bighorn Mountains, an outlying mountain range separated from the rest of the Rocky Mountains by BighornBasin. Elevations range from...
founded the nonprofit organization Hands Across the Saddle (HATS) in the BighornBasin. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1979, Brimley began working to raise...
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Ashkúale – "Mountain Crow"). They claimed the area known as the BighornBasin, from the Bighorn Mountains in the east to the Absaroka Range to the west, and...
United States in an area between the Black Hills of South Dakota and the BighornBasin of Wyoming, and the Tokat Resadiye region of Turkey. Mixed sodium/calcium...
successor to several visionary schemes promoted by Cody to irrigate the BighornBasin and turn it from a semi-arid sagebrush-covered plain to productive agricultural...
and Lowlands Lake Superior Lowland Northern Highland Western Upland BighornBasin Powder River Country Geography of the United States Historic regions...
the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern BighornBasin, Wyoming." University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36:1-122 Matsui...
Wind River Basin as winter range or as a route to hunting grounds in the Sweetwater, BighornBasin, Bighorn Mountains, or Powder River Basin. Coming from...
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