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Bighorn Dolomite
Stratigraphic range: Ordovician
TypeFormation
Location
RegionWyoming
CountryUnited States

The Bighorn Dolomite is a geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

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Bighorn Dolomite

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The Bighorn Dolomite is a geologic formation in Wyoming. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. Earth sciences portal Paleontology...

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Eriptychiida

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River Formation of Ontario, the Harding Formation of Colorado, and the Bighorn Dolomite of Wyoming. The group contains two documented species: Eriptychius...

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Geology of the Grand Teton area

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years. The Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite forms ragged hard massive light-gray to white cliffs 100 to 200 feet (61 m) high. Dolomite is calcium-magnesium...

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Tongue River Cave

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required to visit the cave per Forest Order. Tongue River Cave is in the Bighorn dolomite. Mapped in 1969 by the National Speleological Society, Tongue River...

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Wind River Canyon

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the strata dip, with high cliffs of sedimentary Madison Limestone, Bighorn Dolomite and sandstone. The northern end of the canyon cuts through red sandstone...

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Gallatin Formation

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the south side of the Big Horn Mountains Type Formation Underlies Bighorn Dolomite Overlies Gros Ventre Formation Thickness 180-300 feet Lithology Primary...

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Geology of Wyoming

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Formation is made up of shale and limestone, overlain by the Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite and the Mississippian Madison Limestone. Small unconformities appear...

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Tensleep Sandstone

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yellowish gray; generally slightly to moderately calcareous; some dolomite and sandy dolomite beds; mostly thick to massive sets of low-angle, wedge-planar...

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Belluno

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of the province of Belluno and the most important city in the Eastern Dolomites region. With its roughly 36,000 inhabitants, it is the largest populated...

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Death Valley National Park

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to the harsh desert environment including creosote bush, Joshua tree, bighorn sheep, coyote, and the endangered Death Valley pupfish, a survivor from...

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Places of interest in the Death Valley area

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limestone, a rock made of calcium carbonate, to dolomite, a calcium-magnesium carbonate. The dolomite was later deeply buried by younger sediment. Far...

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List of mountains by elevation

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968 Gallatin Range, Montana Marmolada 3,343 10,968 Dolomites, Italy – Highest mountain of the Dolomites Mount Saskatchewan 3,342 10,965 Canadian Rockies...

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Rocky Mountains

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underneath a shallow sea, which deposited many kilometers of limestone and dolomite.: 76  In the southern Rockies, near present-day Colorado, these ancestral...

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Phosphoria Formation

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(chert with limestone at base). The Retort phosphatic member (phosphorite, dolomite, and siltstone). The Rex chert member (gray limestone at base, black chert...

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Waterton Lakes National Park

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dating back 1.5 billion years. These rocks are composed of limestone, dolomite and igneous rocks. There are fossilized sea beds as well as salt pseudomorph...

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Rocky Mountain National Park

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ecosystem include snowshoe hares, coyotes, cougars, beavers, mule deer, moose, bighorn sheep, black bears, and Rocky Mountain elk. During the fall, visitors often...

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Banff National Park

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ice. Mammal species such as the grizzly bear, cougar, wolverine, elk, bighorn sheep and moose are found, along with hundreds of bird species. Reptiles...

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Jefferson River

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sea encroached on the land, depositing sedimentary layers of limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone over several hundred million years. Limestone is...

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Grand Teton National Park

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"Tukudika" as they referred to themselves, since a staple of their diet was the Bighorn Sheep. The Shoshones continued to follow the same migratory pattern as...

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Mojave Desert

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which is common in the Mojave Notable species of the Mojave Desert include bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), mountain lions (Puma concolor), black-tailed jackrabbits...

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Foreland basin

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Cretaceous 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...

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List of passes of the Rocky Mountains

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National Park Dolomite Pass  Alberta 2484 m 8,150 ft 51°41′47″N 116°23′02″W / 51.6964°N 116.3839°W / 51.6964; -116.3839 (Dolomite Pass) Foot trail...

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Squaretop Mountain

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Squaretop Mountain (right) reflected in Green River Lakes. White Rock is a dolomite and limestone cliff that rises 3,300 feet above the lake. List of mountain...

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Battlefield

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those of cavalry horses, on the battlefield of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in 1876 First Marine Battalion (United States) hoisting the flag at the...

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