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The Judith Mountains are located in central Montana [1] in the Central Montana Alkalic Province in Fergus County, just to the northeast of Lewistown, Montana. Judith Peak is the highest summit of this range, with an elevation of 6,428 feet (1,959 m).
The Judith Mountains run about 18 miles long. [4] They form an isolated, independent mountain group that was formed by a number of independent dome-shaped uplifts including laccoliths and other intrusive igneous rocks. [5] The Judith Mountains range from Cambrian to Cretaceous in age. The Cambrian rocks consist of clay, silt, sand, and quartz.
The geology of Montana includes thick sequences of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks overlying ancient Archean and Proterozoic crystalline basement rock. . Eastern Montana has considerable oil and gas resources, while the uplifted Rocky Mountains in the west, which resulted from the Laramide orogeny and other tectonic events have locations with met
That diamond on your wedding ring isn't as rare as you might think, according to new research. There are over a quadrillion tons of diamonds lurking 100 miles below the Earth's surface, according ...
The mines in the Judith Mountains, to the southwest of Rocky Point, were discovered in 1880. [4] The gold strikes in the Little Rockies (a small outlier mountain range on the eastern Montana plains) was first made as a placer gold strike in 1884, but this placer strike only lasted a few years. [5]
The tributary became famed as Montana Gulch, and the shelf became doubly famed as the Montana Bar of the Montana Gulch. [ 6 ] The Montana Bar was only about 2 to 3 acres (8,100 to 12,100 m 2 ) in extent, but it was one of the truly spectacular placer gold discoveries in terms of yield per unit area.
There, he was told he had found a 7.46-carat brown diamond. The 7.46 carat diamond discovered by Julien Navas, of Paris, France, upon his visit to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas on ...
Yogo sapphires are blue sapphires, a colored variety of corundum, found in Montana, primarily in Yogo Gulch (part of the Little Belt Mountains) in Judith Basin County, Montana. Yogo sapphires are typically cornflower blue, a result of trace amounts of iron and titanium. They have high uniform clarity and maintain their brilliance under ...