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The geology of Wyoming includes some of the oldest Archean rocks in North America, overlain by thick marine and terrestrial sediments formed during the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic, including oil, gas and coal deposits. Throughout its geologic history, Wyoming has been uplifted several times during the formation of the Rocky Mountains, which produced complicated faulting that traps hydrocarbons.[1]

  1. ^ Lageson, David; Spearing, Darwin (1988). Roadside Geology of Wyoming. Mountain Press Publishing Company.

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Geology of Wyoming

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The geology of Wyoming includes some of the oldest Archean rocks in North America, overlain by thick marine and terrestrial sediments formed during the...

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Geology of the Rocky Mountains

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The geology of the Rocky Mountains is that of a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins. Collectively these make up the...

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University of Wyoming

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The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming. It was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory...

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Morrison Formation

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Jurassic Morrison Formation of southeastern Wyoming with implications for biostratigraphic correlations". Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs...

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Green River Formation

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Geology, University of Wyoming, 30: 45 Lance Grande (1984), "Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna", Bulletin of...

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Geology of the Grand Teton area

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The geology of the Grand Teton area consists of some of the oldest rocks and one of the youngest mountain ranges in North America. The Teton Range, partly...

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Uranium mining in Wyoming

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Retrieved 2008-03-09. Raymond E. Langden, Geology and geochemistry of the Highland uranium deposit, Wyoming Geological Association Earth Science Bulletin, Dec...

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Yellowstone hotspot

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(eds.). "The track of the Yellowstone hot spot: Volcanism, faulting, and uplift". Regional Geology of Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming. Memoir 179: 1–52...

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Powder River Basin

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The Powder River Basin is a geologic structural basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming, about 120 miles (190 km) east to west and 200 miles (320 km)...

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Hell Creek Formation

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portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. In Montana, the Hell Creek Formation overlies the Fox Hills Formation. The site of Pompeys...

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Wyoming

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Wyoming (/waɪˈoʊmɪŋ/ wye-OH-ming) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Montana to the north and...

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Sundance Sea

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Kuehn, Steve. "Geology of the Mesozoic Era: 245 to 66 million years ago" (PDF). Department of Physics, Physical Sciences, and Geology at California State...

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Madison Group

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Equivalents of the Madison are named the Pahasapa Limestone in the Black Hills, Leadville Limestone (Colorado), Guernsey Limestone (Wyoming), and Redwall...

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Sevier orogeny

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Lawton, T. F. (1986-05-01). "Time of initial thrusting in the Sevier orogenic belt, Idaho-Wyoming and Utah". Geology. 14 (5): 388–391. doi:10...

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Coal mining in Wyoming

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Coal mining in Wyoming has long been a significant part of the state's economy. Wyoming has been the largest producer of coal in the United States since...

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Wyoming Craton

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southern margin of the growing craton. The Precambrian basement of Wyoming consists mainly of three major geologic terranes, the Archean Wyoming Craton or Province...

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Bighorn Basin

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"Basin-wide magnetostratigraphic framework for the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 119 (7–8): 848. Bibcode:2007GSAB..119..848C...

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Almond Formation

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The Almond Formation is a geological formation of Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian) age in Wyoming. It was deposited in marsh, deltaic...

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Niobrara Formation

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geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the...

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Wind River Canyon

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Geology of Wyoming (2nd ed.). Mountain Press. pp. 159–163. ISBN 978-0-87842-216-6. Geology of Wyoming, Wind River Canyon Part One Geology of Wyoming,...

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Sundance Formation

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located in the Bureau of Land Management Red Gulch/Alkali National Back Country Byway, near Shell in Big Horn County, Wyoming. Jennings, Debra S.; Stephen...

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Ogallala Aquifer

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"Geohydrology of the High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming". U.S. Geological Survey...

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Cloverly Formation

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Formation is a geological formation of Early and Late Cretaceous age (Valanginian to Cenomanian stage) that is present in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado...

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Wind River Basin

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(PDF). United States Geological Survey. H. H. R. Sharkey (1956). "Structural Control of Oil Fields in Wind River Basin, Wyoming". AAPG Bulletin. 40 (4):...

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Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation

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crocodylomorph from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Wyoming, USA". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5: 287–295. doi:10.31711/giw.v5i0.32...

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Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field

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volcanic plateau and volcanic field located mostly in the western U.S. state of Wyoming but also stretches into Idaho and Montana. It is a popular site for tourists...

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Denver Basin

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the D-J Basin, is a geologic structural basin centered in eastern Colorado in the United States, but extending into southeast Wyoming, western Nebraska...

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Geography of Wyoming

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The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the...

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Laramie Mountains

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guide to the geology of Wyoming. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Wyoming. 55:1-90. Cary, M., 1917. Life zone investigations in Wyoming. Bulletin USDA...

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