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	Great Divide Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The basin is a natural anticline in the surface of the land, and forms a self contained endorheic watershed.
		Along the Continental Divide at points to the north and the south of the basin, the divide splits in two and then reconnects, (see bifurcation), with the result being an area where all precipitation either sinks into the soil or evaporates.
		Interstate 80 bisects the basin east to west and U.S. Highway 287 heading north from Rawlins, Wyoming traverses the eastern regions of the area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Divide_Basin (415 words)

	National Park Service: A Survey of the Recreational Resources of the Colorado River Basin (Chapter 2)
		The general floor of this regional basin consists of flat stretches and broad slopes of gentle gradient trenched by relatively broad valleys and shallow canyons, but is roughened by ridges and elongated domes sufficiently high and resistant to erosion to outline somewhat poorly defined subordinate units.
		The Rock Springs Dome and the White Mountains separate the Great Divide Basin—4,200 square miles in extent—from the Bridger Basin, the latter extending along both sides of the Green River, from the foothills of the Wind River and Gros Ventre Mountains southward for 150 miles to the base of the Uinta Mountains.
		This great up-arching was associated with down-warps paralleling its borders—on the north the Bridger Basin, on the south the Uinta Basin, and on the east the Yampa Basin.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colorado/chap2.htm (3653 words)

	Columbia and Great Basin Divide, Elko County, Nevada
		Divide Between the Columbia River Basin and the Great Basin
		Divide is at an elevation of 6480 feet, the creek that forms Taylor Canyon drains west to the Columbia River Basin and the creek that drains Telegraph Flat drains east to the Humboldt Sink
		Divide is at an elevation of 6360 feet, Summit Creek drains east to the Columbia River Basin and Willow Creek drains west to the Humboldt Sink
	www.elkorose.com /columbia.html (713 words)

	Great Divide Basin. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Great Divide Basin (c.2,500 sq mi/6,475 sq km), S central Wyo., primarily in NE Sweetwater co., extends into Fremont and Carbon cos.; 90 mi/145 km long E-W, 45 mi/72 km wide.
		branches of the Continental Divide; there is no river outlet from the basin to either the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.
		The only viable streams are Bear Creek, which flows SE into Bush L., and its North Fork and Sand Creek tributaries, all in NW corner of basin.
	www.bartleby.com /69/49/G04649.html (162 words)

	Wyoming Geography - NETSTATE
		Great Plains: The eastern part of Wyoming is influenced by the Great Plains, part of the interior plain that stretches from Canada through the United States to Mexico.
		The land of the Great Plains of Wyoming is characterized by short-grass prairie and with cottonwoods and shrubs growing along the rivers in the area.
		Major basins are the Bighorn and Powder River Basins in the north, the Wind River Basin in central Wyoming and the Green River, Great Divide, and Washakie Basins in the south.
	www.netstate.com /states/geography/wy_geography.htm (1026 words)

	Statewide Data Inventory - Green River/Great Divide Basin Introduction
		Moist mountainous terrain in the north and west of the basin produce perennial streamflow, while dry high plateaus in the south and east exhibit ephemeral streams.
		The Great Divide portion of this hydrologic unit is a closed basin of 3,959 square miles to the east.
		A 1948 upper basin compact between Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming established Wyoming's share as 14% of the upper basin allocation.
	waterplan.state.wy.us /sdi/GG/GG-over.html (400 words)

	Geomorphology: Chapter 2 Plate T-8
		To the north and northeast, the Green River basin is hemmed in by the Gros Ventre and Wind River ranges; the latter is a tilt block with a thrust fault on the southwest flank and monoclinal hogbacks on the northeast side.
		Eastward around the Rock Springs uplift, the basin merges with the Great Divide basin, which, in turn, is bounded by the uparched Sweetwater block and Rawlins uplift and merges with the Washakie basin (synclinal) to the south.
		Figure T-8.3 is a Landsat view of the Wind River basin, another large intermontane depression that occupies the center of the state between the Wind River Mountains on the west, the Casper Arch on the east, the Owl Creek/Bridge Mountains on the north, and the Sweetwater Arch to the South.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_2/GEO_PLATE_T-8.shtml (930 words)

	Wyoming Outdoor Council: Programs - Red Desert - Great Divide
		The Great Divide Basin is the only place where the Continental Divide splits and rejoins, creating a 2.5 million acre basin where the water remains rather than flowing into the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans.
		The Great Divide Basin is the essence of what westerners cherish: 'open space.' However this land is much more than open space; the vast expanse is sparkling with jewels of nature.
		While the Great Divide is a geographic area, until recently the BLM used the name of this definitive geographic feature for the Resource Management Plan that covered a larger region.
	wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org /programs/reddesert/greatdivide.php (718 words)

	Great Basin Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Continental Divide is hydrographically defined by whether surface waters flow to the Atlantic Ocean or to the Pacific Ocean.
		The first American settlers in the Basin were the Mormons, in 1847, who had been significantly persecuted for their cultural beliefs and practices and had moved into the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake.
		Indigenous life in the Great Basin continued into the second half of the 19th Century; however, while it was one of the last regions of the Continental United States to be intruded upon, it was also one of the most quickly destroyed, being a very fragile ecological balance of living systems.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/basin/gb-intro.htm (1101 words)

	Wyoming @ RockyMountainRoads.com - Interstate 80 Westbound - Sweetwater County (#1)
		Interstate 80 continues to travel through the extensive Great Divide Basin, where all precipitation and runoff that falls on this land is either evaporated or absorbed into the ground; no rivers or creeks carry water out of the Great Divide Basin to any river system or to either ocean.
		The Red Desert and Great Divide Basin spread out to the north of Interstate 80, while the southern edge of the basin is only ten or so miles south of the freeway.
		Interstate 80 essentially skirts the southern edge of the Great Divide Basin; the majority of the basin lies to the north, between Interstate 80 and the Green Mountains and Antelope Hills.
	www.rockymountainroads.com /i-080i_wy.html (4065 words)

	Saving the Sage Grouse
		It is dawn in the Jack Morrow Hills, a patch of pimples on the edge of Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin, a mesmerizingly barren expanse of sage that one 19th century traveler said only "a mad poet" could love.
		Pending development of gas leases on the west side of the basin led federal officials to reroute the 3,200 mile-long Continental Divide National Trail away from some of the most scenic country in the Divide Basin and onto a dirt road.
		Although most of the basin is public domain, federal land managers have traditionally bowed to the interests of commercial lessees when it has come to balancing public access and recreation with those of livestock, mining and oil and gas.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF2001/Clifford/Clifford.html (1996 words)

	BLM Wyoming Rock Springs Field Office Wild Horse Herd Management Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Great Divide Basin HMA encompasses 778,915 acres, of which 562,702 acres are BLM - administered public lands.
		The management area is located 40 miles east of Rock Springs, to the Rawlins/Rock Springs field office boundary, west to the Continental Divide, and north of I-80 to just south of South Pass City.
		The maps needed for this area are Red Desert Basin and South Pass.
	www.wy.blm.gov /rsfo/hma/grtdiv.htm (603 words)

	Glacier Cyclery - Whitefish Montana
		Riding the portion of the Great Divide mountain bike route from the US border to Whitefish and beyond will truly be a highlight of your life.
		Glacier Cyclery is located in one of those lakeside resort towns, Whitefish, MT. Although Whitefish is about 70 miles from Roosville, the Canadian border starting point of the Great Divide Route, it is the closest town accessible by public transportation for those of you beginning your trip at this point on the route.
		Riding the Great Divide is a unique adventure of backcountry bikepacking and requires cycling equipment, backpacking equipment, and survival gear.
	www.glaciercyclery.com /divide.html (1890 words)

	Great Divide Basin. (Great Divide Basin, Wyoming)(Writers on the Range) - Sunset - HighBeam Research
		The Great Divide Basin, WY, is a barren dessert found in the middle of the Continental Divide where travellers could very easily get lost.
		There is a hole in the middle of the Continental Divide, where the rain that falls finds no river, where the rain that falls has nowhere to go but back.
		Favored by travelers since the beginning of human time in America, it's where people in cars get their impression (lucky for inhabitants of all species) that Wyoming is all horizon and wind, and in winter it's a world of blowing snow.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1-20925258.html (416 words)

	Welcome - Oil and Gas
		With the emergence of the current mountain ranges, the landscape was broken and tilted and the sandstone became traps for hydrocarbons.
		Included are the Green River, Red Desert (or Great Divide), Washakie, and Sand Wash Basins, bounded by the Wind River Mountains, the Rawlins, Sierra Madre, and Uinta Uplifts.
		The west side of the Green River Basin is bounded by the Wyoming-Utah-Idaho Overthrust Belt, in which sedimentary rocks have been pushed up and over the western margin of the basin.
	www.rswy.net /Welcome/Oil_n_Gas.htm (426 words)

	Lewis Shale Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Deep-water slope and basin turbidite sandstones within the Lewis Shale of the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming were sourced from deltaic feeder systems of coeval Fox Hills Sandstone.
		As Fox Hills Sandstone shelf-edge deltas (Red Desert delta) stepped basinward from north to south, probably enhanced by tectonic activity in the Antelope Arch area, fine-grained sediments were delivered to the slope and basin floor in a shallow Lewis Shale Sea, creating a sand-rich graded (coupled) basin.
		Clinoforms became successively steeper, and the basin became increasingly deeper from older to younger cycles.
	www.mines.edu /Academic/geology/LewisShaleProject/project17.html (393 words)

	Great Divide Race Updates
		If Kevin is referring to the Great Divide Basin when he says "We want to get pretty deep into the basin", I'm afraid he's mistaken.
		I think that's why you figured you were near the Great Divide Basin, but you're not.
		It's great to see John and Kevin picking up the pace as they settle in to the ride.
	greatdividerace.blogspot.com /2006/07/846-pm-mdt-july-1-2006-07-02-024655.html (525 words)

	Muss My Hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Another cool thing Wyoming locals told me about the Great Divide is Two Oceans Lake in Wyoming, so named because the two stream outlets at either end of the lake were on different sides of the great divide, thus going to different oceans eventually.
		Meanwhile, my redder-haired half has clued me in on The Great Basin, which is a catch-all name for a series of watersheds that, yep, don't outlet to any ocean.
		The Continental Divide is the boundary that seperates the water (streams, rivers, etc.) that eventually goes west to the Pacific and the water that goes east to the Gulf of Mexico or the Hudson Bay.
	www.mussmyhair.com /cgi-bin/index.cgi/Maps (1245 words)

	Continental Divide Summary
		In the conterminous United States and Canada, the continental divide follows an irregular course from the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau physiographic provinces of New Mexico north through the Rocky Mountains, the Yellowstone region, and the Canadian Rockies.
		Water in streams to the west of the continental divide flows toward the Pacific Ocean, whereas that to the east of the continental divide flows toward the Atlantic Ocean.
		Therefore, it is best to restrict the usage of the term continental divide to a topographic divide that separates streams flowing towards opposite sides of the continent than to include speculations about the ultimate fate of individual drops of water.
	www.bookrags.com /Continental_Divide (1031 words)

	Wyoming Outdoor Council: Programs - Red Desert - Defining the Red Desert
		Called the “Great American Desert” by pioneers, the Red Desert is a vast expanse of high altitude dry land covered in sagebrush, unusual landforms, and abundant wildlife.
		The Red Desert encompasses millions of acres including: much of the Rock Springs Field Office, the western half of the Great Divide (Rawlins) Field Office, and a small portion of Northern Colorado (see map).
		The earliest description of the Red Desert we know of comes from a USDA publication in 1898, titled "The Red Desert of Wyoming and its Forage Resources." This publication described the Red Desert as extending from the North Platte to the Green River, with the south boundary as the Wyoming state line.
	www.wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org /programs/reddesert/definition.php (463 words)

	Rock Springs Wild Horse EA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Additional horses would be removed from the Great Divide Basin HMA to accommodate horses that were gathered from the North Baxter/Jack Morrow Hills area that must be returned to the range due to selective removal criteria.
		This model was run with Great Divide Basin HMA specific parameters, assuming the beginning population is at the mid-range of 500 wild horses, horses are removed every other year, and the current selective removal criteria apply.
		It lies north of Interstate 80 and is bounded on the west by Highway 191, north by Highway 28, and on the east by the western boundary of the Great Divide Basin wild horse herd management area.
	www.wy.blm.gov /wildhorses/env_docs/RSWHEA.html (14384 words)

	Great Divide History
		There is a lot of history and there are a lot of great stories about the Great Divide and all the great people who have enjoyed the area.
		Contact us at Great Divide and we will post your stories on our site.
		In the midst of a series of warm, open winters in Helena, it is looking like cold, snowy, rugged Montana winters have gone the way of the $18 Sears ski package, the $9 parka, and use of the word "togs".
	greatdividemontana.com /great_divide_history.html (1235 words)

	Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council Passes Resolution Supporting Protection of Southern Wyoming’s Great Divide ...
		Their resolution highlighted the unique geographical features of the Great Divide Basin and the vulnerability of the numerous historical and cultural artifacts to be found there.
		The planning area, which is known as the Great Divide Country, is spread across more than 18,000 square miles covers 3.5 million acres of surface and one million acres of the federal minerals estate.
		The Great Divide Country ranges from sculpted badlands and sagebrush steppe to mountainous highlands and drifting sand dunes.
	www.wilderness.org /WhereWeWork/Wyoming/WR135-GreatDividBasin.cfm (1057 words)

	Welcome - Great Divide Basin
		The Continental Divide splits to form a broad desert basin, one of the most unique and spectacular landscapes in North America -The Red Desert.
		A wondrous and incredible place: the desert’s stunning rainbow-colored hoo-doos, towering buttes and prehistoric rock art define this rich landscape and provide a truly wild “home on the range” for the largest migratory game herd in the lower 48 states—over 50,000 pronghorn antelope in addition to a rare desert elk herd.
		The wild horses that roam the Red Desert are perhaps a legacy of these wandering tribes, renegade escapees that founded the great herds that still thunder across the flats near Adobe Town and the Joe Hay Rim.
	www.rswy.net /Welcome/GreatDivideBasin.htm (1934 words)

	Continental Divide Trail Alliance \| Wyoming Public Lands
		For CDT travelers, the first view of the Great Divide Basin carries with it the numbing realization that it must be crossed.
		In reality, the basin embraces many diverse and distinct ecosystems: short-grass and mixed-grass prairie, sand dunes, desert shrubland, playas (alkaline basins that have become shallow lakes), riparian areas, and sagebrush steppe.
		To the west of the Great Divide the land is dominated by timbered ridges, grassy slopes, and broad willow and sedge meadows with elevations from 7,500 feet to 9,675 feet.
	www.cdtrail.org /page.php?pname=about/lands/wy (721 words)

	GORP - The Continental Divide Trail: Steeped in History
		That bump is the Continental Divide, and once it splits the creek, the branches don't rejoin.
		In Wyoming, the route of the Oregon Trailwhich is also the route of the California Trail and the Mormon Pioneer Trail and the Pony Expressis still visible, etched into the ground one wagon at a time, sometimes at the rate of a thousand wagons a day.
		It is estimated than 1 in 17 people died during the great migration, and that there is an average of one grave for every tenth of a mile.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/activity/hiking/features/3crocdt1.htm (563 words)

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