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This is a list of mountain ranges in the state of Montana. Montana is the fourth largest state in the United States and is well known for its mountains. The name "Montana" is Spanish for "Mountain". Representative James Mitchell Ashley (R-Ohio), suggested the name when legislation organizing the territory was passed by the United States ...
Granite Peak is the highest peak of the Beartooth Range and the U.S. State of Montana. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Montana. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
According to the United States Board on Geographic Names there are at least 2991 named mountains (hills, summits, buttes, peaks, etc.) in Montana. This is a list of lists of named mountain peaks in Montana by county. List of mountains in Beaverhead County, Montana; List of mountains in Big Horn County, Montana; List of mountains in Blaine ...
Saddle Peak is the sixth-highest peak in the Bridger Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [1] The peak is situated nine miles (14 km) north of Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into tributaries of the East Gallatin River.
Rocker Peak, 8,455 ft (2,577 m), [4] is near Jack Mountain (Montana), the second highest peak in the Boulder Mountains. [5] There is a SNOTEL weather station near the summit of Rocker Peak at an elevation of 8,000 ft (2,438 m). Rocker Peak has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dfc), bordering on an Alpine climate (Köppen ET).
Ramshorn Peak is located 35 miles (56 km) south of Bozeman in the Gallatin National Forest and the Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area. [1] The peak is the eighth-highest peak in the Gallatin Range which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains . [ 1 ]
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
The Lewis Range is a mountain range located in the Rocky Mountains of northern Montana, United States and extreme southern Alberta, Canada.It was formed as a result of the Lewis Overthrust, a geologic thrust fault involving the overlying of younger Cretaceous rocks by older Proterozoic rocks.