General
Montana Math and Science
Initiative geological road signs
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
Museum of the Rockies
Rising
From the Plains, by John McPhee. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux,
1987.
Tetons
Journey
through the Past: geology of Grand Teton National Park. Park
Service pamphlet (2 pages).
Mafic dike
on Mt Moran (photo with caption)
Windows
Into The Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National
Parks, by by Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel. Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Interpreting
the Landscapes of Grand Teton & Yellowstone National Parks: Recent
and Ongoing Geology, by John M. Good and Kenneth L. Price. Grand
Teton Natural History Association, 2005.
Creation
of the Teton Landscape (Love and Reed, 1971)
The Boulder Batholith and Butte
Images
of the Berkeley Pit, Butte from Montana's Department of Environmental
Quality
"Butte, Montana: A mesothermal
ore field," in An introduction to economic geology and its
environmental impact by Anthony M. Evans
Facts about the
Berkeley Pit (Butte) and mine flooding (Montana Tech)
Geology
of the Butte mining district, Montana (Zeihen, et al., 1987)
Ringing rocks
(YouTube video) And
here's another one.
Basement complex
Beartooth
Highway from GORP.com
Selected
Features of the Precambrian rocks of the eastern Beartooth Mountains,
Montana and Wyoming (Henry & Mogk)
Field
trip along the Beartooth Highway (Henry & Mogk)
Plutonic
complex of the Long Lake area, Beartooths (Mogk)
Mafic
dikes of the Beartooths (Harlan)
Mafic dike
on Mt Moran (photo with caption)
The
Gunbarrel mafic magmatic event: A key 780 Ma time marker for Rodinia plate
reconstructions, in Geology (Harlan, et al., 2003) [see
also color map here]
Reference
list for the eastern Beartooth Mountains
A
study in contrasts: Archean and Quaternary geology of the Beartooth Highway,
Montana and Wyoming (Mueller, et al., 1987)
Geologic
Excursions into the Absaroka, Beartooth, and Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
and Montana (Carson, et al., 1998?)
Precambrian
rocks - the core of the Tetons, in Creation of the Teton Landscape
(Love and Reed, 1971)
United
Plates of America (Hoffman, 1998)
Wyoming
Terrane (poster by Henry, Mogk, & Mueller, 2005)
Belt Supergroup
SEDEX
- Synopsis of the Belt-Purcell Basin (Lydon) [especially
the first 6 sections]
LaHood
Formation - A Coarse Facies of the Belt Series in Southwestern Montana
(McMannis, 1963)
Precambrian
Sedimentary Environments: Special Publication Number 33 of the International
Association of Sedimentologists, 2002
"Glacier
National Park Geology and Paleontology: Part 1" on DinoChick
Blogs, plus see Part
2, Part
3, Part
4, and Part
5. (Discusses the many kinds of stromatolites)
Geology
along Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana.
Omar B. Raup, Robert L. Earhart, James W. Whipple, and Paul E. Carrara,
Glacier Natural History Association, 1983.
Lewis Thrust and Distrubed Belt
Structural Geology of the Sawtooth Range at Sun River Canyon, Montana
Disturbed Belt, Montana (Lageson, 1987)
The Lewis thrust
fault and related structures in the Disturbed Belt, northwestern Montana
(Mudge, 1980)
Geology
along Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana.
Omar B. Raup, Robert L. Earhart, James W. Whipple, and Paul E. Carrara,
Glacier Natural History Association, 1983.
Various
Glacier-Waterton Park geology resources
Laramide Orogeny
Was the Laramide Orogeny related to
the subduction of an oceanic plateau? (Livaccari, et al.)
Nature, 1981.
Kinematic
history of the Laramide orogeny in latitudes (Bird, 1998)
Art
of science: Farallon Plate (Sigloch, 2008)
Cenozoic
magmatism and the subduction of the Farallon slab (Ball, 2008)
Farallon
Plate Remnants (NASA tomography)
Beaverhead Impact Structure
Shock wave frozen in stone
on rim of impact crater (Montana Earth Science Picture of the Week)
Please let me know if any of these links no longer work.
This page was last updated on August 15, 2009. -CB
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Karst
and differential weathering
Lewis and Clark State
Park
Glacial Lake Missoula
NOVA:
Mystery of the Megaflood WGBH (Boston), 2005.
Multiple
catastrophic drainage of Glacial Lake Missoula, Montana (Alt, 1987)
Photo
of lakeshore "strandlines" on Mount Jumbo, Missoula
Photo
of giant ripples in Camas Prairie area, north of Missoula
Field
trip guide: Scablands and Continental Glaciations
Glacial
Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods, by David D. Alt Mountain
Press Publishing, 2001.
Bretz's
Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest
Flood, by John Soennichsen, Sasquatch Books, 2008.
The
Lake Missoula megafloods, post on the blog Highly Allochthonous,
2009.
The
great flood, post on the blog Outside the Interzone, 2009.
Earthquakes
Surface
faulting associated with the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake at Doublespring
Pass road, east-central Idaho (Crone, 1987)
The
Hebgen Lake Earthquake Area, Montana and Wyoming (Witkind & Stickney,
1987)
Evaluation of Hazardous Faults
in the Intermountain West Region (Crone, Haller, and Maharrey, 2009)
Mass wasting
The
Hebgen Lake Earthquake Area, Montana and Wyoming (Witkind & Stickney,
1987)
NOVA
Geoblog: Madison River Landslide, Montana (Bentley, 2008)
The
Montana Traveler:
Madison River Earthquake Area (Holz, 2003)
Glaciation
A
study in contrasts: Archean and Quaternary geology of the Beartooth Highway,
Montana and Wyoming (Mueller, et al., 1987)
Zone
of interaction between Laurentide and Rocky Mountain glaciers east of
Waterton-Glacier Park, northwestern Montana and south western Alberta
(Karlstrom, 1987)
Glacier
Retreat in Glacier National Park (USGS)
Repeat Photography
Project (USGS)
Quaternary
- Time of Ice, in Creation of the Teton Landscape (Love
and Reed, 1971)
Various
Glacier-Waterton Park geology resources
Dinosaur paleontology
Dinosaurs
(Museum of the Rockies)
Upper
Cretaceous coastal plain sediments at Dinosaur Provincial Park, southeast
Alberta (Koster & Currie, 1987)
Yellowstone
Interpreting
the Landscapes of Grand Teton & Yellowstone National Parks: Recent
and Ongoing Geology, by John M. Good and Kenneth L. Price. Grand
Teton Natural History Association, 2005.
Windows
Into The Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National
Parks, by by Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel. Oxford University
Press, 2005.
Geology Field
Notes: Yellowstone National Park (NPS, 2005)
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Jake
Lowenstern Interview (YouTube)
Rockies Paleozoic & Mesozoic stratigraphy
(Bridgers)
Geologic
Maps of Western and Northern Parts of Gallatin National Forest, South
Central Montana (Wilson & Elliott, 1997)
Generalized correlation
chart of Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic rocks, Yellowstone River Basin,
in Environmental Setting of the Yellowstone River Basin, Montana,
North Dakota, and Wyoming (Zelt, et al., 1999)
The
Paleozoic Era, in Creation of the Teton Landscape (Love
and Reed, 1971) Also see the section on the
Mesozoic Era.
Absaroka Volcanics (Eocene)
"Absaroka
Volcanics" in Yellowstone: A Visitor's Guide, p. 40
Geologic
Excursions into the Absaroka, Beartooth, and Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
and Montana (Carson, et al., 1998?)
"Geology"
in Environmental Setting of the Yellowstone River Basin, Montana,
North Dakota, and Wyoming (Zelt, et al., 1999)
Basin and Range extension
"Basin
and Range" in Yellowstone: A Visitor's Guide, p. 44
Western
United States extension: how the West was widened (Sonder and Jones,
1999)
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