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Uinta Mountains

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The Uinta Mountains are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. [1]

61 relations: Abies lasiocarpa, Ashley National Forest, Bear River (Great Salt Lake), Blacks Fork, Boy Scouts of America, Cambrian, Colorado Plateau, Colorado River, Contiguous United States, Cretaceous, Dinosaur National Monument, Douglas fir, Duchesne River, Ecoregion, Fault (geology), Forb, Glacier, Great Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake Council, Green River (Colorado River tributary), High Uintas Wilderness, Ice age, Jordan River (Utah), Kings Peak (Utah), Laramide orogeny, Laurentia, List of mountain ranges, List of mountain ranges of Utah, Mancos Shale, Mesozoic, Metasedimentary rock, Mirror Lake (Uinta Mountains), Mountain range, Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Permafrost, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Populus tremuloides, Provo River, Quartz arenite, Quartzite, Retreat of glaciers since 1850, Rock glacier, Rocky Mountains, Rodinia, Salt Lake City, Sedimentary Geology (journal), Shale, Slate, ..., Supercontinent, Tectonic uplift, Uinta Highline Trail, United States, Utah, Utah Lake, Utah State Route 150, Wasatch and Uinta montane forests, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Weber River, Wyoming. Expand index (11 more) »

Abies lasiocarpa

Abies lasiocarpa, commonly called the subalpine fir or Rocky Mountain fir, is a western North American fir tree.

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Ashley National Forest

Ashley National Forest is a National Forest located in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming.

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Bear River (Great Salt Lake)

The Bear River is the largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, draining a mountainous area and farming valleys northeast of the lake and southeast of the Snake River Plain.

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Blacks Fork

Blacks Fork (also referred to as Blacks Fork of the Green River) is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Boy Scouts of America

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.

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Cambrian

The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Contiguous United States

The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers.

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Douglas fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as Douglas fir, Douglas-fir and Oregon pine, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America.

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Duchesne River

The Duchesne River, located in the Uintah Basin region of Utah in the western United States, is a tributary of the Green River.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.

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Forb

A forb (sometimes spelled phorb) is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes).

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Great Salt Lake Council

The Great Salt Lake Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America and serves the Utah counties of Salt Lake, Tooele and Summit, as well as much of Davis County.

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)

The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

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High Uintas Wilderness

The High Uintas Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northeastern Utah, United States.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Jordan River (Utah)

The Jordan River, in the state of Utah, United States, is a river about long.

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Kings Peak (Utah)

Kings Peak is the highest peak in the U.S. state of Utah, with an elevation of.

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Laramide orogeny

The Laramide orogeny was a period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 70 to 80 million years ago, and ended 35 to 55 million years ago.

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Laurentia

Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent.

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List of mountain ranges

This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.

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List of mountain ranges of Utah

The named mountain ranges of Utah.

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Mancos Shale

The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Metasedimentary rock

In geology, metasedimentary rock is a type of metamorphic rock.

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Mirror Lake (Uinta Mountains)

Mirror Lake is a lake in the high Uinta Mountains in Utah.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Neoproterozoic

The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Permafrost

In geology, permafrost is ground, including rock or (cryotic) soil, at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years.

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Picea engelmannii

Picea engelmannii, with common names Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, or silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta, southwest to northern California and southeast to Arizona and New Mexico; there are also two isolated populations in northern Mexico.

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Pinus contorta

Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America.

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Populus tremuloides

Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen.

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Provo River

The Provo River is located in Utah County and Wasatch County, Utah, in the United States.

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Quartz arenite

A quartz arenite or quartzarenite is a sandstone composed of greater than 90% detrital quartz, with limited amounts of other framework grains (feldspar, lithic fragments, etc.) and matrix.

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Quartzite

Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

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Retreat of glaciers since 1850

The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and, in the longer term, the level of the oceans.

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Rock glacier

Rock glaciers are distinctive geomorphological landforms, consisting either of angular rock debris frozen in interstitial ice, former "true" glaciers overlain by a layer of talus, or something in between.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Rodinia

Rodinia (from the Russian родить, rodít, meaning "to beget, to give birth", or родина, ródina, meaning "motherland, birthplace") is a Neoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled 1.3–0.9 billion years ago and broke up 750–633 million years ago.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Sedimentary Geology (journal)

Sedimentary Geology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about sediments in a geological context published by Elsevier.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

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Supercontinent

In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.

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Tectonic uplift

Tectonic uplift is the portion of the total geologic uplift of the mean Earth surface that is not attributable to an isostatic response to unloading.

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Uinta Highline Trail

The Uinta Highline Trail is a trail in the Uinta Mountains of Utah that traverses the range from east to west.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Utah Lake

Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Utah State Route 150

State Route 150, also known as the Mirror Lake Highway, is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Wasatch and Uinta montane forests

The Wasatch and Uinta montane forest is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion in the Wasatch Range and Uinta Mountains of the western Rocky Mountains system, in the Western United States.

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Wasatch-Cache National Forest

Wasatch-Cache National Forest is a United States National Forest located primarily in northern Utah (81.23%), with smaller parts extending into southeastern Idaho (16.42%) and southwestern Wyoming (2.35%).

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Weber River

The Weber River is a ''c''. long river of northern Utah, USA.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uinta_Mountains

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