Owl Creek Mountains
Geology
During the Tertiary period, the rivers in the region removed much of the basin fill exposing older bedrock. The rocks in the Owl Creek Range date from the Mississippian age through the Cretaceous period. The mountains likely emerged in the late Cretaceous, in the Laramide orogeny. In areas near the Boysen Fault, just north of Boysen Reservoir's dam at the southern mouth of Wind River Canyon, erosion has removed the upper part of the thrust of the mountain, exposing Cambrian and Ordovician rocks, overlaying Triassic age rocks.
Wind River Canyon has several markers along the main roadway through it, which indicate the time period the rocks are from.
Metavolcanic rocks of predominantly basaltic and dacitic composition have been found in the canyon.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Owl Creek Mountains". peakbagger.com.
- ^ Louis J. Maher, Jr. (2001). "Geology by Lightplane". University of Wisconsin Madison Department of Geoscience.
- ^ Patrick J. Mangou PHD. "Geology of Wind River Canyon, Wyoming". USGeologyMorphology.com. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
- ^ "Geology of the Wind River Canyon". Historical Marker Database. September 3, 2015.
- ^ Paul Mueller, Zell Peterman, James Granath (1985). A Bimodial Archean Volcanic Series, Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming, The Journal of Geology. The University of Chicago Press.
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43°27′N 108°45′W / 43.450°N 108.750°W