Category archives for Bighorn Basin

Middle Fork Powder River-Buffalo Creek drainage divide area landform origins in the Wyoming southern Bighorn Mountains, USA

  Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Middle Fork Powder River and Buffalo Creek in the Wyoming southern Bighorn Mountains. The Middle Fork Powder River originates in the southern Bighorn Mountains along the asymmetric Bighorn River-Powder River drainage divide and flows in a north, northeast, east, […]

Cottonwood Creek-Owl Creek drainage divide area landform origins in the Owl Creek Mountains and southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA

Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Cottonwood Creek and Owl Creek in the Owl Creek Mountains and southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Cottonwood Creek and Owl Creek have headwaters in the southern Absaroka Range and then flow in generally east directions along the Owl Creek Mountains north […]

Gooseberry Creek-Cottonwood Creek drainage divide area landform origins in the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA

Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Gooseberry Creek and Cottonwood Creek in the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Gooseberry Creek and Cottonwood Creek originate in the same general region at the Absaroka Range southeast end and then diverge to flow along separate, but generally east oriented routes […]