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  2. Bighorn Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Bighorn Basin is a plateau region and intermontane basin, approximately 100 miles (160 km) wide, in north-central Wyoming in the United States. It is bounded by the Absaroka Range on the west, the Pryor Mountains on the north, the Bighorn Mountains on the east, and the Owl Creek Mountains and Bridger Mountains on the south.

  3. Bighorn Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Bighorn Mountains (Crow: Basawaxaawúua, lit. 'our mountains' or Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua, 'bighorn sheep's mountains' [1]) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately 200 mi (320 km) northward on the Great Plains.

  4. Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark

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    The Big Horn Medicine Wheel is a sacred site to many people of many nations. Although the Wheel was built high above the Bighorn Basin, and the climb up from the basin takes effort, a wide and deep cut ancient trail takes the traveler directly to the Wheel.

  5. Bighorn National Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Bighorn National Forest was established as the Big Horn National Forest on 22 February 1897, and encompasses 1,198,080 acres. On 1 July 1908 the name was changed to the Bighorn National Forest through an executive order. In September 1981 the national forest had 1,115,171 acres, with 1,107,670 of those acres being National Forest land. [7]

  6. Ellis Group - Wikipedia

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    Gypsum bed in the Piper Formation, Big Horn Basin of Wyoming. The Ellis Group is a stratigraphical unit of Bajocian-Oxfordian age in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana and Wyoming in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from Fort Ellis, Montana, and was first described in outcrop in the Rocky Creek Canyon by A.C. Peale in 1893. [2]

  7. Thermopolis Shale - Wikipedia

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    Anticlines in the Southern Part of the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming: A Preliminary Report on the Occurrence of Oil. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 656 (PDF) (Report). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey. Hintze, Ferdinand Friis Jr. (1914). The Basin and Greybull oil and gas fields. Wyoming State Geologist's Bulletin No 10 (PDF) (Report ...

  8. Shell Creek - Wikipedia

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    Lying entirely within Big Horn County, Shell Creek begins above the Shell Lakes in the Bighorn Mountains. Starting at an elevation of over 11,000 ft (3,400 m), it drops to below 3,800 ft (1,200 m) as it descends the western side of the Bighorn Mountains through Shell Canyon and enters the Big Horn Basin near Shell, Wyoming.

  9. Greybull River - Wikipedia

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    The river rises near Francs Peak in the Absaroka Mountains in the southwest corner of the Big Horn Basin. It joins with the Wood River and leaves the mountains near the town of Meeteetse , continuing through the southern parts of Park County and Big Horn County before flowing into the Big Horn River near Greybull .