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	Uinta Mountains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Uinta Mountains are a high chain of mountains in northeastern Utah in the United States.
		Formed by the Uinta Mountains uplift and consisting primarily of quartzite and slate, many of the peaks are ringed with bands of cliffs, rising to broad or flat tops.
		The high Uintas are snowcapped year-round except for late July through early September.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uinta_Mountains (311 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		The Uinta Basin and Mountains are located in the northeast corner of the state and are part of a larger physiographic area known as the Colorado Plateau Province.
		The Uinta Mountains, a folded and faulted anticlinorium (a succession of geological anticlines and synclines), are 150 miles long and are oriented in an east-west direction; they extend from Heber Valley on the west to Cross Mountain in Colorado to the east.
		The Uinta Basin and Mountains possess an abundance of prehistoric remnants.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/u/UINTAHBASIN.html (1668 words)

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		Results of this 1:24,000-scale field mapping of surficial deposits in the southern Uinta Mountains indicate that glaciers in the southwestern and southeastern valleys were confined to deep canyons during the Last Glacial Maximum, whereas large glaciers in the south-central drainage basins extended beyond canyon mouths.
		Most glacial sediments in the southern Uinta Mountains were deposited during the last deglaciation (~18 – 12 cal. ka); these include moraines that may indicate a minor ice advance at ~13 cal. ka in one valley in the central Uintas (Carson, 2003).
		Be-exposure ages of moraine boulders suggest the LGM in the south-central Uinta Mountains occurred at 17.6 + 1.1 cal. ka and, therefore, was approximately synchronous with the maximum extent of Lake Bonneville.
	www.geology.wisc.edu /~davem/abstracts/04-18.htm (661 words)

	National Park Service: A Survey of the Recreational Resources of the Colorado River Basin (Chapter 2)
		They are the Green River Basin, the Uinta Mountain Region, the Colorado Plateau (north and south portions), the eastern and western border lands, the Arizona mountain region, the Arizona volcanic areas, and the basin and range province.
		Also suggestive of the Uinta structures is the remarkable Axial Basin a valley formed by stripping away the crest of an anticline which crosses the Yampa River and farther southeast merges with folds of the White River Plateau.
		From Juniper Mountain to Steamboat Springs, Colo., except near the mouth of Elkhead Creek, where Tertiary rocks are exposed, the Yampa and its southern tributary flow on Cretaceous rocks, developing broad valleys and rounded hills in soft shales, and rugged landscapes of ridges, mesas, and "pagodas" in the most resistant sandstone.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colorado/chap2.htm (3653 words)

	Uinta Mountains \| Utah.com
		The Uintas includes a high, pristine mountain area in northeastern Utah that is popular for fishing, hiking, backpacking, horsepacking, hunting and other outdoor activities.
		The Uinta Range is the highest in Utah, and is the only major range in the contiguous United States with an east-west orientation.
		Mention the Uintas and most people think about backpacking: forty pounds of weight on your back, four gallons of mosquito repellent in your pack, and 10 miles of steep trail between you and your destination, which is located above tree line, next to a snowfield that never completely melts.
	www.utah.com /playgrounds/uinta_mountains.htm (1594 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Mountains High: Utah abounds with high peaks in all counties
		Utah is a desert state, the second most arid of the 50 states, and yet it also has mountains located in all 29 of its counties.
		Gilbert Peak, Uinta Mountains, Summit and Duchesne counties, 13,442.
		Mount Lovenia, Uinta Mountains, Summit and Duchesne counties; 13,219.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600122409,00.html (1291 words)

	Physical Geography of Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Both the mountains and the basins tend to be from about 25 to 50 miles long and from 15 to 20 miles wide.
		Unlike the fault-block mountains of the Great Basin and the Wasatch, the Uinta Range is a folded anticline bordered by the Uinta Basin to the south and the Green River (or Wyoming) Basin to the north.
		The high mountains and plateaus are humid; the lower basins, valleys, and flatlands are often arid; and the transitional places in between are sub-humid to semi-arid.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/the_land/physicalgeographyofutah.html (1779 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Fall fishing in Uinta Mountains
		UINTA MOUNTAINS — It was, even for the average angler, a perfect day...
		The Uintas are popular with anglers in the summer, but, for some reason, not so much in the fall.
		The surrounding mountains are wearing their best attire in the fall.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595089887,00.html (1032 words)

	Utah Uinta Mountains & High Uintas Wilderness Area
		A multiday backpack along the summit of the Uinta Mountains to the eastern edge of the High Uintas Wilderness.
		Two miles west of Trial Lake, on the western side of the Uinta Mountains, lies a high alpine bench that the Forest Service is fond of calling Lake Country.
		The trail is in the Uinta National Forest near the western boundary of the High Uintas Wilderness and fe...
	www.trails.com /activity.asp?AreaID={A06A0BBB-5344-4FCA-A639-3D89C31E0337} (747 words)

	Geology of the Burnt Fork Area
		The Uinta Mountains, the largest east‑west trending range in the conterminous United States, lie mostly in Utah, just south of the Wyoming border, except for an eastward extension of some thirty miles into Colorado.
		South of the Uinta Mountains Mississippian or Mesozoic sediments directly overlie rocks of Archean age (Butler et al, 1920), thus indicating a late Precambrian and early Paleozoic source for sediments in the Uinta trough.
		The Gilbert Peak surface is the oldest and best‑preserved surface in the Uinta region; remnants extend from high on the mountain flanks to 35 miles out in the Green River Basin at gradients between 400 and 55 feet per mile and all are capped by the Bishop Conglomerate.
	www.mckinnonwyoming.com /GeologyThesis.htm (3709 words)

	Encyclopedia: Uinta Mountains
		The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands.
		The Green River is dammed in Flaming Gorge on the north side of the eastern Uinta Mountains.
		The 7,700-foot flat plateaus (Dowd Mountain and Bare Top Mountain) that bracket the steep narrow gorge are remnants of an ancient flat valley that has been uplifted in recent times.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Uinta-Mountains (2096 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Snow-Covered Peaks of the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
		The mountains surrounding Salt Lake City are renowned for the dry, powdery snow that results from the arid climate and location at the western edge of the Rocky Mountains and eastern rim of the Great Basin.
		The canyons and peaks of the Uinta and Wasatch Mountains are particularly striking in the stereo view.
		The Uinta Mountains contain the highest peaks in Utah and are notable as the most prominent east-west trending range in the contiguous United States.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=7260 (274 words)

	Uinta Mountains, Utah Travel & Vacation Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Uintas are Utah's tallest mountain range with almost a dozen peaks exceeding 13,000 feet.
		The Uinta Mountains run east to west just south of the Wyoming/Utah border for 100 miles from Flaming Gorge to Kamas.
		The western Uintas proximity to population centers of the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden) often result in crowded conditions on weekends at the most easily accessed portions.
	www.go-utah.com /Uinta-Mountains (269 words)

	Uinta National Forest - About Us
		In 1906, it was renamed the Uinta Forest Reserve (the "h" was dropped).
		One is that it was named to avoid confusion with the Spanish Fork River to the south, another that it was named by early trappers and mountain men who worked the creek for beaver in the early 1800s, in reference to the American Fur Company.
		The cave was not used as a dance hall for very long due to difficulty in access and poor lighting (History of the Uinta National Forest, 1997).
	www.fs.fed.us /r4/uinta/about/history/placenames.shtml (2105 words)

	PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS FROM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC UINTA MOUNTAIN GROUP, UINTA MOUNTAINS, NORTHEAST UTAH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Proterozoic Uinta Mountain Group (UMG) is exposed at the core of the east-west trending Uinta Mountains along late Cretaceous to early Tertiary Laramide-style high-angle reverse faults.
		The thickness of UMG strata ranges from 7.3 km in the eastern Uinta Mountains to 4.0 km in the west.
		Strata of the eastern and central regions are dominated by hematite-cemented medium- to fine-grained sandstone, interbedded shale, and subordinate coarser-grained siliciclastic intervals.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001RM/finalprogram/abstract_6182.htm (361 words)

	Uinta Mountains, Utah
		Other than the Brooks Range in Alaska, the Uintas are the most prominent east/west range in the United States.
		The High Uintas are notorious for biting insects.
		The High Uintas Preservation Council endeavors to preserve and restore the integrity of the High Uintas Ecosystem.
	www.utahwild.com /mountains/uintas/index.shtml (411 words)

	Summary of Citation
		Recognized in measured sections at Manila on the north side of the Uintas and on the Weber River, on the Uinta uplift, and in Duchesne and Uintah Cos in the Uinta basin.
		Occurs in the central Wasatch Mountains and western Uinta Mountains of UT on the Wasatch and Uinta uplifts, respectively.
		Depositional limits in northern UT, Uinta basin and Uinta uplift, southwest WY in Greater Green River basin and northwest CO in Greater Green River, Piceance, and Eagle basins shown on map.
	ngmdb.usgs.gov /Geolex/Refsmry/sumry_8252.html (547 words)

	Quaternary Research in the Uinta Mountains
		The goals are built upon previous work done in the Uintas by Munroe and Laabs and will substantially increase knowledge on the timing and pattern of glaciation in the Uinta Mountains as a whole.
		Use air photograph and 1:24,000-scale field mapping to determine the extent of glaciers during and since the LGM in the southern Uinta Mountains.
		Previous studies of the glacial record in the Rocky Mountains have focused primarily on determining the timing of the local LGM (e.g., Phillips et al., 1997); comparatively little research has been done to determine the timing of the last deglaciation and the dynamics of alpine glaciers during this important climatic transition (e.g., Madole, 1980).
	www.geology.wisc.edu /~qlab/uintas/research.html (536 words)

	Wilderness.net
		The Uinta Mountains were carved by glaciers from an immense uplift of Precambrian rock.
		This rugged expanse of peaks and flat-top mountains is the largest alpine area in the Intermountain West and is the setting for Kings Peak, the highest peak in Utah.
		The Uinta Mountains are home to: elk, mule deer, moose, mountain goats, coyotes, fl bears, bighorn sheep, ptarmigan, river otter, pine marten, cougar, and about 75 percent of Utah's bird species.
	www.wilderness.net /index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=246 (501 words)

	Climate, Weather, and Topography/Water Atlas of Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Great Basin section is a broad flat basin punctuated by mountains or small mountain ranges that rise abruptly from the rather flat valley floor.
		These mountains are impressive because summits lie mostly along the western flank of the range.
		The Uinta Basin--whose central portion is generally 5,000 to 5,500 feet--is bounded on the north by the Uinta Mountains.
	www.engineering.usu.edu /uwrl/atlas/ch2/ch2pp.html (315 words)

	Uinta National Forest \| Utah.com
		Steep Canyons and rugged mountain peaks dominate the Uinta National Forest along the south end of the Wasatch Front.
		One feature of the magnificent Uinta National Forest is the Mt. Nebo Loop, a Scenic Byway.
		A photographers dream, this route is a 32-mile paved drive full of rugged mountain beauty and many stunning overlooks of surrounding valleys.
	www.utah.com /nationalsites/uinta.htm (212 words)

	Uinta Mountains Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ LocalColors.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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		A subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they run east to west for approximately 100 mi (160 km) east of Salt Lake City.
	www.localcolors.com /encyclopedia/Uinta_Mountains (399 words)

	Summary of Citation
		Mapped as a cap on flat-topped, southward-protruding shoulders of the Uinta Mountains that seldom form outcrops because it is weakly cemented and commonly covered by well-developed soil.
		The age of the Bishop Conglomerate is problematical, but based on K-Ar ages of tuff beds exposed in the unit elsewhere in the eastern Uinta Mountains (G. Winkler, written commun., 1969), it is generally considered to be Oligocene.
		Recognized in the Uinta Mountain area of the Greater Green River basin and Uinta uplift.
	ngmdb.usgs.gov /Geolex/Refsmry/sumry_7092.html (659 words)

	DENDROCHRONOLOGY-BASED RECONSTRUCTION OF STREAMFLOW FOR ASHLEY CREEK AND WHITEROCKS RIVER, UINTA MOUNTAINS, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Three long, continuous tree-ring records that were collected from the southern Uinta Mountains in 1972 (World Data Center for Paleoclimatology; Investigators: Harsha, Stockton, and Jacoby) have been used to reconstruct local mean annual discharge.
		Climatologic data (precipitation and temperature) for the Uinta Mountains are of limited duration; stream gage data for the same area have been continuously collected for a much longer period.
		These reconstructed streamflow records for Whiterocks River and Ashley Creek are believed to be representative of the south flank of the Uinta Mountains because of the high correlation between contemporary annual discharges on the various streams in the range.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001AM/finalprogram/abstract_25185.htm (477 words)

	Fishing Brown Duck Basin in Utah's Uinta Mountains
		Uinta Mountains — Fishing the Brown Buck Basin
		You see, we were about to ride into the High Uinta Primitive Area (to the Kidney Lake area) for some serious relaxation and enjoyment.
		According to the stories, many a man with the gleam of gold in his eye and a heart set on riches had wandered these rugged mountains in search of untold wealth.
	www.utahoutdoors.com /uintamountains/brownduckbasin.htm (1665 words)

	Utah History for Kids - Duchesne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Uinta Mountains, the only east-west running mountain range in the United States, lie in the north part of Duchesne County.
		The state's highest mountain, King's Peak (13,528 feet above sea level) is located in the county's Uinta Mountains.
		The Uintas are also the major source for four important rivers: the Bear, the Weber, the Provo, and the Green.
	historyforkids.utah.gov /homework_help/counties/duchesne.html (806 words)

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