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Welcome To The Northern Rockies
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We hope you
return often as this site develops.
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Differentiating the
American & Canadian Rockies
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| The Rocky Mountains (or the Rockies) extend 3,000 miles from Canada to
Mexico. In British Columbia, Alberta, and northwestern Montana, marine
sedimentary rock has been folded and thrust faulted into a series of parallel
ridges consisting of limestone and shale. Elsewhere (with the notable exception
of southeastern Idaho and southwestern Wyoming), broad basins found between
blocks of uplifted granite predominate. Some refer to the former as the Canadian
Rockies and the latter as the American Rockies. | |
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The Northern Rockies
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Over the years, the term Northern Rockies has referred to a number of
locations including:
- The geological formation referring to the Canadian Rockies
- The Muskwa-Kechika area occurring in northeastern British Columbia
- The northernmost section of the Rocky Mountains ranging from approximately Liard
River to McBride in British Columbia
- The ecoregion (adjacent to the Canadian Rockies ecoregion) stretching from British Columbia into Washington, Idaho,
and Montana of high rugged mountains with glacial lakes where western white
pine, western red cedar and grand fir are common and co-exist with Douglas
fir, subalpine fir, Englemann spruce, & ponderosa pine
- The Lewis and Bitterroot Ranges occurring in western Montana and
northeastern Idaho
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Focus
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| This site will focus upon the easternmost ranges of
the Western Cordillera consisting of limestone and shale that extend from B.C.'s Liard
River to Montana's Blackfoot River. | |
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