scholarly journals The Distribution of Glaciers in the Rocky Mountains of the United States

1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (79) ◽  
pp. 325-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. L. Graf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Northern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains

AbstractEvidence from aerial photographs, maps, and field checks indicates that 319 glaciers lie in cirques of the Rocky Mountains, south of the United States-Canadian border. On a subcontinental scale, the distribution of glaciers is highly clustered, with larger and denser clusters located in the northern Rocky Mountains. Lesser concentrations of small glaciers occur in the southern Rocky Mountains. The total area of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S.A. is 78.9 km2.

scholarly journals The Distribution of Glaciers in the Rocky Mountains of the United States

1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (79) ◽  
pp. 325-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. L. Graf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Northern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains

Abstract Evidence from aerial photographs, maps, and field checks indicates that 319 glaciers lie in cirques of the Rocky Mountains, south of the United States-Canadian border. On a subcontinental scale, the distribution of glaciers is highly clustered, with larger and denser clusters located in the northern Rocky Mountains. Lesser concentrations of small glaciers occur in the southern Rocky Mountains. The total area of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S.A. is 78.9 km2.

A novel assessment of population structure and gene flow in grey wolf populations of the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 4412-4427 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIDGETT M. VONHOLDT ◽  
DANIEL R. STAHLER ◽  
EDWARD E. BANGS ◽  
DOUGLAS W. SMITH ◽  
MIKE D. JIMENEZ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Population Structure ◽  
Gene Flow ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Grey Wolf ◽  
Northern Rocky Mountains

Habitat Selection by Recolonizing Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 554-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN K. OAKLEAF ◽  
DENNIS L. MURRAY ◽  
JAMES R. OAKLEAF ◽  
EDWARD E. BANGS ◽  
CURT M. MACK ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Habitat Selection ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Rocky Mountains

Survival of Colonizing Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States, 1982–2004

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Smith ◽  
Edward E. Bangs ◽  
John K. Oakleaf ◽  
Curtis Mack ◽  
Joseph Fontaine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Rocky Mountains

Sphagnum in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States

1976 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Andrus ◽  
Earle F. Layser
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Northern Rocky Mountains

Raising the West: Mid-Cenozoic Colorado-plano related to subvolcanic batholith assembly in the Southern Rocky Mountains (USA)?

Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Lipman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crustal Thickness ◽  
Crustal Thickening ◽  
High Plains ◽  
High Potassium ◽  
Southern Rocky Mountains ◽  
Moho Depths

The Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado, United States, have the highest regional elevation in North America, but present-day crustal thickness (~42–47 km) is no greater than for the adjacent, topographically lower High Plains and Colorado Plateau. The chemistry of continental-arc rocks of the mid-Cenozoic Southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field, calibrated to compositions and Moho depths at young arcs, suggests that paleocrustal thickness may have been 20%–35% greater than at present and elevations accordingly higher. Thick mid-Cenozoic Rocky Mountain crust and high paleo-elevations, comparable to those inferred for the Nevadaplano farther west in the United States from analogous volcanic chemistry, could be consistent with otherwise-perplexing evidence for widespread rapid erosion during volcanism. Variable mid-Cenozoic crustal thickening and uplift could have resulted from composite batholith growth during volcanism, superimposed on prior crustal thickening during early Cenozoic (Laramide) compression. Alternatively, the arc–crustal thickness calibration may be inappropriate for high-potassium continental arcs, in which case other published interpretations using similar methods may also be unreliable.

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