Tag archives for Geomorphology

North Platte River-Bates Creek drainage divide area landform origins in the Laramie Mountains, USA

  Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the North Platte River-Bates Creek drainage divide area in the Wyoming Laramie Mountains. The North Platte River flows in a north, north-northeast, northeast, east, south, and southeast direction around the northwest end of the southeast and south oriented Laramie Mountains. Bates Creek […]

Muddy Creek-Medicine Bow River drainage divide area landform origins in the Wyoming Shirley and Freezeout Mountains, USA

  Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Muddy Creek-Medicine Bow River drainage divide area in the Wyoming Shirley and Freezeout Mountains. Muddy Creek is a an east, southeast, and south oriented stream flowing from the Shirley Mountains around the Freezeout Mountains to the southwest and west-northwest oriented Little […]

Medicine Bow River-North Platte River drainage divide area landform origins in the Wyoming Medicine Bow Mountains, USA

  Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Medicine Bow River-North Platte River drainage divide area in the Wyoming Medicine Bow Mountains. The Medicine Bow Mountains extend in a north-northwest to south-southeast direction across the Wyoming-Colorado border and the North Platte River flows in a north-northwest direction along west […]

North Platte River-Laramie River drainage divide area landform origins in the Colorado Medicine Bow Mountains, USA

  Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the North Platte River-Laramie River drainage divide area in the Colorado Medicine Bow Mountains. The Medicine Bow Mountains extend in a north-northwest direction from near the northwest corner of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado into southern Wyoming. The Laramie River originates […]

Grizzly Creek-Colorado River drainage divide area landform origins along the continental divide in the Colorado Rabbit Ears Range, USA

  Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Grizzly Creek-Colorado River drainage divide area in the Colorado Rabbit Ears Range. The Rabbit Ears Range is a west to east oriented mountain range separating the north oriented North Platte River headwaters area in North Park from the deep west and […]

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, […]

North Fork Shoshone River-South Fork Shoshone River drainage divide area landform origins in the Absaroka Mountains, northwest Wyoming, USA

  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 […]

Madison River-Gallatin River drainage divide area landform origins in northwest Yellowstone National Park region, Montana and Wyoming, USA

Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins between the Madison River and Gallatin River in the northwest Yellowstone National Park region, Montana and Wyoming. The northwest Yellowstone National Park region as defined here includes the Yellowstone National Park northwest corner and the region west to the north-northwest oriented Madison River valley. […]

Madison River-Gallatin River drainage divide area landform origins in Madison Range (middle), Madison and Gallatin Counties, Montana, USA

Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins between the Madison River and Gallatin River in the middle Madison Range area located in Madison and Gallatin Counties, Montana. The Madison River flows in north direction from near the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park on the west side of the Madison Range […]

Jefferson River-South Boulder River drainage divide area landform origins in the Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison County, Montana, USA

Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins between the Jefferson River and the South Boulder River in the Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison County, Montana. The Jefferson River is formed west of the Tobacco Root Mountains at the confluence of the south and northeast oriented Big Hole River, the north-northeast oriented Beaverhead […]