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, […]
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Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Bighorn River and Little Bighorn River in northern Wyoming. The Bighorn River flows in a north direction along the west side of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming and near the Montana-Wyoming state line turns to flow in a northeast […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Tongue River and Shell Creek in the Wyoming Bighorn Mountains. The Tongue River and Shell Creek originate in same region of the high Bighorn Mountains, but flow to opposite sides of the Bighorn Mountains. The Tongue River flows in […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Paint Rock Creek and Tensleep Creek in the Wyoming Bighorn Mountains. Paint Rock Creek and Tensleep Creek originate in the high Bighorn Mountains and flow in southwest directions to join the northwest oriented Nowood River, which flows along the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Shell Creek and the Nowood River in the Wyoming Bighorn Mountains and Bighorn Basin. Shell Creek is a northwest and west-southwest oriented stream originating on the crest of the high Bighorn Mountains and joining the north oriented Bighorn River […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Nowood River and Nowater Creek in the Wyoming Bighorn Basin. The Nowood River flows in a northeast, north, and northwest direction along the southeast side of the Bighorn Basin and then into the Bighorn Basin to join the north oriented […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Nowood River and Badwater Creek in the southern Bighorn Mountains. The Nowood River is a northeast, north, and northwest oriented drainage route flowing from the Bighorn Basin south margin along the Bighorn Basin east margin and then into the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Nowater Creek and Badwater Creek in the southern Bighorn Basin and Wyoming Bridger Mountains and is located in the region directly east of Wind River Canyon. Nowater Creek flows in a north and northwest direction from the steep Bridger […]
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 […]
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 […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Fifteenmile Creek and Gooseberry Creek in the Wyoming Bighorn Basin. Gooseberry Creek flows in a north direction from Absaroka Range southeast end into the Bighorn Basin and then turns to flow in an east and southeast direction to join the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Greybull River and Fifteenmile Creek in the Wyoming Bighorn Basin. The Greybull River originates in the Absaroka Range and flows to Meeteetse in the Bighorn Basin before turning to flow in a northeast, east-southeast, and northeast direction to join […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Shoshone River and Greybull River in the Wyoming Bighorn Basin. The Shoshone River headwaters originate in the Absaroka Mountains and converge near Cody, Wyoming to form the northeast oriented Shoshone River, which flows across the northern Bighorn Basin to […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the North Fork Shoshone River and the South Fork Shoshone River in the Absaroka Range located in northwest Wyoming. The North Fork Shoshone River flows in an east direction to join the northeast oriented South Fork Shoshone River at […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Rotten Grass Creek and the Little Bighorn River in Big Horn County, Montana. Rotten Grass Creek is a northeast, north, and north-northwest oriented Bighorn River tributary originating in the high Bighorn Mountains near the Montana-Wyoming state line. The Little Bighorn […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Bighorn River and Rotten Grass Creek in Big Horn County, Montana. North of the Wyoming state line the Bighorn River flows in a deep northeast oriented canyon across the north end of the Bighorn Mountains and then flows in […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River and the Bighorn River and its Shoshone River tributary near the Montana-Wyoming border. Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River originates in the Montana Beartooth Mountains and flows in a southeast direction into Wyoming before turning […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Pryor Creek and the Bighorn River in Yellowstone and Big Horn Counties, Montana. Pryor Creek is a northwest, north, and north-northeast oriented Yellowstone River tributary originating in the Pryor Mountains, which are located south of Billings, Montana. East of Pryor […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret the history of drainage divides within and surrounding the Bighorn River drainage basin. Detailed essays describing a few Bighorn River drainage divide areas near the Yellowstone River in Montana have been written and can be found under […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Bighorn River-Tullock Creek drainage divide area is located in Montana, USA. Although detailed topographic maps of the Bighorn River-Tullock Creek drainage divide area have been available for more than fifty years detailed map evidence has not previously been used to interpret the region’s geomorphic history. […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Little Bighorn River-Rosebud Creek (and Tongue River) drainage divide area is located in Montana, USA. This essay also includes Little Bighorn River-Tongue River drainage divide evidence located along the Montana-Wyoming state line. Although detailed topographic maps of the Little Bighorn River-Rosebud Creek (and Tongue River) […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Montana Yellowstone River-Bighorn River drainage divide area discussed here is located north of Williams Coulee, which drains southeast to the Bighorn River, and east of Fly Creek, which drains northwest to the Yellowstone River. Although detailed topographic maps of the Yellowstone River-Bighorn River drainage divide […]