Sheep Mountain EarthCache
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The terrain is level and wheel chair accessible. Paved parking is available next to a highway. The elevation at the listed coordinates is 4402.
The Big Horn Mountain range in Wyoming began to form more than 80 million years ago at the very end of the Cretaceous Period. Smaller folds off the flanks of the Big Horns were created at or around the same time.
Folds are generally conceded to be the horizontal compression of the earth’s surface with anticlines being squeezed up to form arches or upfolds and synclines form depressions or downfolds.
To better picture this, if you hold a piece of paper in your hands and gently push the ends towards the center – the paper will either form a bump going up (anticline) or a dip going down (syncline).
Anticlines and synclines are useful to geologists as they give information regarding geological history and assist with exploration for gas, oil and water supplies.
To log this Earthcache:
At the listed coordinates there will be a sign that tells about Sheep Mountain.
1) Log a picture of your group or your GPSr with Sheep Mountain (NOT the SIGN) in the background. (sorry, but logs with the sign will have to be deleted)
And you must also . . .
2) E-mail us information about 3 features regarding Sheep Mountain.
Please begin your e-mail with the name of the Earthcache and tell us how many people were in your group.
The following sources were used for this cache:
• The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Date: 2008
• A 2005-2006 brochure, A SELF-GUIDED TOUR of the RED GULCH DINOSAUR TRACKSITE AREA, GeoScience Adventures, Inc., 1802 Highway 14 E, Shell, WY 82441. Scientific data by Erik P. Kvale Ph.D, Indiana University.
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