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The Clark Fork, or the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, is a river in the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho, approximately 310 miles (500 km) long. It is named after William Clark of the 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition .
Silver Bow Creek is a 26-mile-long (42 km) headwater stream of the Clark Fork (river) originating within the city limits of Butte, Montana, from the confluence of Little Basin and Blacktail Creeks. A former northern tributary, Yankee Doodle Creek, no longer flows directly into Silver Bow Creek as it is now captured by the Berkeley Pit .
The Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River (sometimes called the Clark's Fork River) is a tributary of the Yellowstone River, 150 mi (241 km) long in the U.S. states of Montana and Wyoming. [ 3 ] It rises in southern Montana, in the Gallatin National Forest in the Beartooth Mountains , approximately 4 mi (6 km) northeast of Cooke City and ...
Rock Creek is a 52-mile (84 km) river in Missoula and Granite County, Montana. Rock Creek is a tributary of the Clark Fork river. The river's headwaters are in Lolo National Forest near Phillipsburg, Montana. The river roughly parallels the Sapphire Mountains and enters the Clark Fork of the Columbia River near Clinton, Montana.
The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark Fork is a tributary of the Pend Oreille River, a Columbia River tributary. With a drainage basin extending over 8,795 square miles (22,780 km 2 ) and an average discharge of 11,380 cubic feet per second (322 m 3 /s), the Flathead is the largest tributary of the Clark Fork and ...
Clark Fork, Pack River, Priest River, Salmo River The Pend Oreille River ( / ˌ p ɒ n d ə ˈ r eɪ / POND -ə- RAY ) is a tributary of the Columbia River , approximately 130 miles (209 km) long, in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington in the United States , as well as southeastern British Columbia in Canada .
The earliest Snake River Plain eruptions began about 15 million years ago, just as the tremendous early eruptions of Columbia River Basalt were ending. But most of the Snake River Plain volcanic rock is less than a few million years old, Pliocene age (5–1.6 million years ago) and younger. [8]
The South Fork Flathead River is a major river in Northwestern Montana in the northwest United States. [2] It is one of the three main forks of the Flathead River, a tributary of the Clark Fork River (the Pend Oreille River). The north-northwest trending river is about 98 miles (158 km) long, making it the second longest tributary of the ...