East Of The Rocky Mountains

Major mountain range in western North America

Rocky Mountains
The Rockies (en), Les montagnes Rocheuses (fr), Montañas Rocosas , Rocallosas (es)
Moraine Lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Highest point
Superlative	Mount Elbert, Colorado
Elevation	14,440 ft (4,400 g)
Coordinates	39°07′04″N 106°26′43″W  /  39.11778°N 106.44528°Westward  / 39.11778; -106.44528
Dimensions
Length	iv,828 km (iii,000 mi)(direct-line altitude)
Width	650 km (400 mi)
Geography
Countries	Canada and U.s.a.
States/Provinces	British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico
Range coordinates	43°44′28″Northward 110°48′07″Westward  /  43.741°Due north 110.802°Due west  / 43.741; -110.802 Coordinates: 43°44′28″N 110°48′07″W  /  43.741°North 110.802°W  / 43.741; -110.802
Parent range	North American Cordillera
Geology
Age of stone	Precambrian and Cretaceous
Type of rock	Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mount arrangement in Northward America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 mi (iv,800 km)^[1] in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern Usa. Depending on differing definitions betwixt Canada and the United States, its northern terminus is located either in northern British Columbia'southward Terminal Range southward of the Liard River and east of the Trench, or in the northeastern foothills of the Brooks Range/British Mountains that confront the Beaufort Body of water coasts between the Canning River and the Firth River across the Alaska-Yukon edge.^[2] Its southernmost point is nearly the Albuquerque area adjacent to the Rio Grande rift and north of the Sandia–Manzano Mountain Range. Beingness the easternmost portion of the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are distinct from the tectonically younger Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, which both lie farther to its west.

The Rocky Mountains formed 80 million to 55 million years agone during the Laramide orogeny, in which a number of plates began sliding underneath the Due north American plate. The angle of subduction was shallow, resulting in a broad belt of mountains running down western Due north America. Since then, farther tectonic activity and erosion by glaciers have sculpted the Rockies into dramatic peaks and valleys. At the cease of the terminal ice age, humans began inhabiting the mountain range. After explorations of the range by Europeans, such every bit Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and Anglo-Americans, such as the Lewis and Clark Trek, natural resources such as minerals and fur collection the initial economical exploitation of the mountains, although the range itself never experienced a dense population.

Of the 100 highest major peaks of the Rocky Mountains, 78 (including the 30 highest) are located in Colorado, 10 in Wyoming, 6 in New United mexican states, three in Montana, and one each in Utah, British Columbia, and Idaho. Of the 50 about prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains, 12 are located in British Columbia,^[a] 12 in Montana, ten in Alberta,^[a] eight in Colorado, four in Wyoming, three in Utah, 3 in Idaho, and 1 in New Mexico. Public parks and wood lands protect much of the mount range, and they are popular tourist destinations, especially for hiking, camping, mountaineering, angling, hunting, mountain biking, snowmobiling, skiing, and snowboarding.

Etymology [edit]

The name of the mountains is a translation of an Amerindian Algonquian name, specifically Cree as-sin-wati , literally "rocky mountain". The first mention of their nowadays proper noun by a European was in the periodical of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre in 1752, where they were chosen " Montagnes de Roche ".^{[3] [iv]}

Geography [edit]

The Rocky Mountains are the easternmost portion of the expansive N American Cordillera. They are often divers as stretching from the Liard River in British Columbia^{[5] : 13} s to the headwaters of the Pecos River, a tributary of the Rio Grande, in New Mexico. The Rockies vary in width from 110 to 480 kilometres (70 to 300 mi). The Rocky Mountains contain the highest peaks in cardinal Northward America. The range's highest peak is Mount Elbert located in Colorado at four,401 metres (14,440 ft) higher up sea level. Mount Robson in British Columbia, at iii,954 metres (12,972 ft), is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.

The eastern border of the Rockies rises dramatically above the Interior Plains of central North America, including the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado, the Front Range of Colorado, the Air current River Range and Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, the Absaroka-Beartooth ranges and Rocky Mount Front of Montana and the Clark Range of Alberta.^{[ citation needed ]}

Key ranges of the Rockies include the La Sal Range along the Utah-Colorado border, the Abajo Mountains and Henry Mountains of Southeastern Utah, the Uinta Range of Utah and Wyoming, and the Teton Range of Wyoming and Idaho.

The western edge of the Rockies includes ranges such as the Wasatch virtually Salt Lake City, the San Juan Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado, the Bitterroots forth the Idaho-Montana edge, and the Sawtooths in central Idaho. The Neat Basin and Columbia River Plateau split these subranges from singled-out ranges further to the west. In Canada, the western border of the Rockies is formed by the huge Rocky Mountain Trench, which runs the length of British Columbia from its commencement as the Kechika Valley on the south banking company of the Liard River, to the heart Lake Koocanusa valley in northwestern Montana.^[6]

The Canadian Rockies are divers past Canadian geographers equally everything south of the Liard River and e of the Rocky Mountain Trench, and do not extend into Yukon, Northwest Territories or fundamental British Columbia. They are divided into three primary groups: the Muskwa Ranges, Hart Ranges (collectively chosen the Northern Rockies) and Continental Ranges. Other more than northerly mountain ranges of the eastern Canadian Cordillera continue beyond the Liard River valley, including the Selwyn, Mackenzie and Richardson Mountains in Yukon likewise as the British Mountains/Brooks Range in Alaska, simply those are not officially recognized as part of the Rockies past the Geological Survey of Canada, although the Geological Society of America definition does consider them parts of the Rocky Mountains system as the "Arctic Rockies".^[2]

The Continental Separate of the Americas is located in the Rocky Mountains and designates the line at which waters menstruum either to the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. Triple Split up Peak (2,440 g or viii,020 ft) in Glacier National Park is then named because water falling on the mountain reaches non only the Atlantic and Pacific only Hudson Bay every bit well. Further due north in Alberta, the Athabasca and other rivers feed the bowl of the Mackenzie River, which has its outlet on the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean.

Human population is not very dense in the Rocky Mountains, with an average of four people per square kilometer and few cities with over 50,000 people. However, the human population grew rapidly in the Rocky Mountain states between 1950 and 1990. The forty-twelvemonth statewide increases in population range from 35% in Montana to about 150% in Utah and Colorado. The populations of several mountain towns and communities have doubled in the forty years 1972–2012. Jackson, Wyoming, increased 260%, from i,244 to 4,472 residents, in those forty years.^[vii]

The Front end Range of the Rocky Mountains near Denver, Colorado

Geology [edit]

The rocks in the Rocky Mountains were formed before the mountains were raised by tectonic forces. The oldest rock is Precambrian metamorphic rock that forms the core of the Due north American continent. In that location is also Precambrian sedimentary argillite, dating back to one.vii billion years ago. During the Paleozoic, western North America lay underneath a shallow ocean, which deposited many kilometers of limestone and dolomite.^{[5] : 76}

In the southern Rocky Mountains, nigh present-day Colorado, these bequeathed rocks were disturbed past mountain building approximately 300 Ma, during the Pennsylvanian. This mount-building produced the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. They consisted largely of Precambrian metamorphic rock forced upwards through layers of the limestone laid down in the shallow body of water.^[viii] The mountains eroded throughout the tardily Paleozoic and early Mesozoic, leaving extensive deposits of sedimentary stone.

Terranes began colliding with the western border of North America in the Mississippian (approximately 350 meg years ago), causing the Antler orogeny.^[9] For 270 million years, the focus of the furnishings of plate collisions were most the edge of the Due north American plate boundary, far to the west of the Rocky Mount region.^[9] Information technology was non until 80 Ma these effects began reaching the Rockies.^[10]

The current Rocky Mountains arose in the Laramide orogeny from betwixt 80 and 55 Ma.^[10] For the Canadian Rockies, the mountain edifice is analogous to pushing a carpeting on a hardwood floor:^{[11] : 78} the rug bunches up and forms wrinkles (mountains). In Canada, the terranes and subduction are the pes pushing the rug, the bequeathed rocks are the rug, and the Canadian Shield in the middle of the continent is the hardwood flooring.^{[xi] : 78}

Farther south, an unusual subduction may have acquired the growth of the Rocky Mountains in the The states, where the Farallon plate dove at a shallow bending beneath the North American plate. This low angle moved the focus of melting and mountain building much further inland than the normal 300 to 500 kilometres (200 to 300 mi). Scientists hypothesize that the shallow angle of the subducting plate increased the friction and other interactions with the thick continental mass in a higher place information technology. Tremendous thrusts piled sheets of chaff on acme of each other, building the wide, high Rocky Mount range.^[12]

The current southern Rockies were forced up through the layers of Pennsylvanian and Permian sedimentary remnants of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains.^[13] Such sedimentary remnants were oftentimes tilted at steep angles along the flanks of the mod range; they are now visible in many places throughout the Rockies, and are shown along the Dakota Hogback, an early Cretaceous sandstone formation running along the eastern flank of the modern Rockies.

Just after the Laramide orogeny, the Rockies were like Tibet: a high plateau, probably 6,000 metres (xx,000 ft) above sea level. In the last sixty million years, erosion stripped away the high rocks, revealing the ancestral rocks beneath, and forming the current landscape of the Rockies.^{[11] : eighty–81}

Periods of glaciation occurred from the Pleistocene Epoch (ane.8 1000000 – lxx,000 years ago) to the Holocene Epoch (fewer than 11,000 years ago). These water ice ages left their marker on the Rockies, forming extensive glacial landforms, such as U-shaped valleys and cirques. Contempo glacial episodes included the Bull Lake Glaciation, which began about 150,000 years agone, and the Pinedale Glaciation, which perhaps remained at full glaciation until 15,000–20,000 years agone.^[fourteen]

All of these geological processes exposed a complex prepare of rocks at the surface. For case, volcanic stone from the Paleogene and Neogene periods (66 million – two.6 meg years ago) occurs in the San Juan Mountains and in other areas. Millennia of severe erosion in the Wyoming Basin transformed intermountain basins into a relatively flat terrain. The Tetons and other north-primal ranges incorporate folded and faulted rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age draped above cores of Proterozoic and Archean igneous and metamorphic rocks ranging in age from ane.two billion (e.m., Tetons) to more than iii.three billion years (Beartooth Mountains).^[seven]

Ecology and climate [edit]

There are a wide range of ecology factors in the Rocky Mountains. The Rockies range in latitude between the Liard River in British Columbia (at 59° Northward) and the Rio Grande in New Mexico (at 35° N). Prairie occurs at or beneath 550 metres (i,800 ft), while the highest peak in the range is Mount Elbert at 4,400 metres (14,440 ft). Precipitation ranges from 250 millimetres (10 in) per year in the southern valleys^[xv] to ane,500 millimetres (60 in) per twelvemonth locally in the northern peaks.^[16] Average January temperatures can range from −7 °C (twenty °F) in Prince George, British Columbia, to 6 °C (43 °F) in Trinidad, Colorado.^[17] Therefore, at that place is not a unmarried monolithic ecosystem for the unabridged Rocky Mountain Range.

Instead, ecologists separate the Rocky Mountain into a number of biotic zones. Each zone is defined past whether it can support trees and the presence of one or more indicator species. Ii zones that do not support copse are the Plains and the Alpine tundra. The Not bad Plains lie to the east of the Rockies and is characterized by prairie grasses (below roughly 550 metres (1,800 ft)). Tall tundra occurs in regions higher up the tree-line for the Rocky Mountains, which varies from 3,700 metres (12,000 ft) in New Mexico to 760 metres (2,500 ft) at the northern end of the Rocky Mountains (near the Yukon).^[17]

Bighorn sheep (such as this lamb in Alberta) have declined dramatically since European-American settlement of the mountains

The USGS defines ten forested zones in the Rocky Mountains. Zones in more southern, warmer, or drier areas are defined by the presence of pinyon pines/junipers, ponderosa pines, or oaks mixed with pines. In more northern, colder, or wetter areas, zones are defined by Douglas firs, Cascadian species (such as western hemlock), lodgepole pines/quaking aspens, or firs mixed with spruce. Near tree-line, zones can consist of white pines (such equally whitebark pine or bristlecone pino); or a mixture of white pine, fir, and spruce that announced every bit shrub-similar krummholz. Finally, rivers and canyons can create a unique forest zone in more arid parts of the mountain range.^[7]

The Rocky Mountains are an important habitat for a great deal of well-known wildlife, such as wolves, elk, moose, mule and white-tailed deer, pronghorn, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, badgers, black bears, grizzly bears, coyotes, lynxes, cougars, and wolverines.^{[seven] [xviii]} Due north America'south largest herds of moose are in the Alberta–British Columbia foothills forests.

The condition of most species in the Rocky Mountains is unknown, due to incomplete information. European-American settlement of the mountains has adversely impacted native species. Examples of some species that have declined include western toads, greenback cutthroat trout, white sturgeon, white-tailed ptarmigan, trumpeter swan, and bighorn sheep. In the United States portion of the mountain range, apex predators such as grizzly bears and wolf packs had been extirpated from their original ranges, but have partially recovered due to conservation measures and reintroduction. Other recovering species include the baldheaded eagle and the peregrine falcon.^[7]

History [edit]

Indigenous people [edit]

Since the last keen ice age, the Rocky Mountains were habitation outset to ethnic peoples including the Apache, Arapaho, Bannock, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Coeur d'Alene, Kalispel, Crow Nation, Flathead, Shoshone, Sioux, Ute, Kutenai (Ktunaxa in Canada), Sekani, Dunne-za, and others. Paleo-Indians hunted the now-extinct mammoth and ancient bison (an fauna 20% larger than modernistic bison) in the foothills and valleys of the mountains. Like the modern tribes that followed them, Paleo-Indians probably migrated to the plains in fall and winter for bison and to the mountains in spring and summer for fish, deer, elk, roots, and berries. In Colorado, along with the crest of the Continental Split, rock walls that Native Americans congenital for driving game date back v,400–5,800 years. A growing torso of scientific evidence indicates that indigenous people had significant effects on mammal populations by hunting and on vegetation patterns through deliberate called-for.^[vii]

European exploration [edit]

Contempo homo history of the Rocky Mountains is 1 of more than rapid alter. The Castilian explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado—with a group of soldiers and missionaries marched into the Rocky Mountain region from the south in 1540.^[19] In 1610, the Spanish founded the urban center of Santa Iron, the oldest continuous seat of government in the United States, at the foot of the Rockies in present-day New Mexico. The introduction of the horse, metal tools, rifles, new diseases, and different cultures greatly inverse the Native American cultures. Native American populations were extirpated from near of their historical ranges by affliction, warfare, habitat loss (eradication of the bison), and continued assaults on their civilisation.^[vii]

In 1739, French fur traders Pierre and Paul Mallet, while journeying through the Great Plains, discovered a range of mountains at the headwaters of the Platte River, which local American Indian tribes called the "Rockies", becoming the offset Europeans to report on this uncharted mount range.^[20]

Sir Alexander Mackenzie in 1800

Sir Alexander Mackenzie (1764 – March 11, 1820) became the first European to cantankerous the Rocky Mountains in 1793.^[21] He establish the upper reaches of the Fraser River and reached the Pacific coast of what is at present Canada on July 20 of that year, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America due north of Mexico.^[22] He arrived at Bella Coola, British Columbia, where he first reached saltwater at South Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.

The Lewis and Clark Trek (1804–1806) was the showtime scientific reconnaissance of the Rocky Mountains.^[23] Specimens were collected for contemporary botanists, zoologists, and geologists. The expedition was said to have paved the manner to (and through) the Rocky Mountains for European-Americans from the East, although Lewis and Clark met at least 11 European-American mountain men during their travels.^[7]

Mount men, primarily French, Spanish, and British, roamed the Rocky Mountains from 1720 to 1800 seeking mineral deposits and furs. The fur-trading North Westward Visitor established Rocky Mountain Business firm equally a trading post in what is at present the Rocky Mount Foothills of nowadays-day Alberta in 1799, and their business concern rivals the Hudson's Bay Company established Acton House nearby.^[24] These posts served equally bases for most European activeness in the Canadian Rockies in the early 19th century. Among the most notable are the expeditions of David Thompson, who followed the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.^[25] On his 1811 expedition, he camped at the junction of the Columbia River and the Snake River and erected a pole and notice claiming the surface area for the United Kingdom and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a fort at the site.^[26]

By the Anglo-American Convention of 1818, which established the 49th parallel north every bit the international purlieus w from Lake of the Wood to the "Stony Mountains";^[27] the UK and the U.s.a. agreed to what has since been described equally "joint occupancy" of lands further due west to the Pacific Ocean. Resolution of the territorial and treaty issues, the Oregon dispute, was deferred until a afterward time.

In 1819, Espana ceded their rights north of the 42nd Parallel to the United states of america, though these rights did not include possession and besides included obligations to Uk and Russia concerning their claims in the aforementioned region.

Settlement [edit]

After 1802, fur traders and explorers ushered in the first widespread American presence in the Rockies southward of the 49th parallel. The more famous of these include William Henry Ashley, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, John Colter, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Andrew Henry, and Jedediah Smith. On July 24, 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using South Laissez passer in the nowadays Land of Wyoming.^[vii] Similarly, in the wake of Mackenzie's 1793 expedition, fur trading posts were established west of the Northern Rockies in a region of the northern Interior Plateau of British Columbia which came to be known as New Caledonia, beginning with Fort McLeod (today'due south community of McLeod Lake) and Fort Fraser, but ultimately focused on Stuart Lake Mail service (today'southward Fort St. James).

Negotiations between the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and the United States over the adjacent few decades failed to settle upon a compromise boundary and the Oregon Dispute became of import in geopolitical diplomacy between the British Empire and the new American Republic. In 1841, James Sinclair, Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, guided some 200 settlers from the Red River Colony west to bolster settlement around Fort Vancouver in an effort to retain the Columbia District for Britain. The party crossed the Rockies into the Columbia Valley, a region of the Rocky Mount Trench near nowadays-day Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, then traveled due south. Despite such efforts, in 1846, U.k. ceded all claim to Columbia District lands south of the 49th parallel to the United States; every bit resolution to the Oregon boundary dispute by the Oregon Treaty.^[28]

Thousands passed through the Rocky Mountains on the Oregon Trail beginning in the 1840s.^[29] The Mormons began settling most the Great Salt Lake in 1847.^[30] From 1859 to 1864, gold was discovered in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, sparking several gold rushes bringing thousands of prospectors and miners to explore every mountain and canyon and to create the Rocky Mountains' commencement major industry. The Idaho gilt rush alone produced more gold than the California and Alaska gold rushes combined and was important in the financing of the Wedlock Army during the American Civil State of war. The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869,^[31] and Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's offset national park in 1872.^[32] Meanwhile, a transcontinental railroad in Canada was originally promised in 1871. Though political complications pushed its completion to 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway eventually followed the Kicking Equus caballus and Rogers Passes to the Pacific Sea.^[33] Canadian railway officials besides convinced Parliament to set aside vast areas of the Canadian Rockies as Jasper, Banff, Yoho, and Waterton Lakes National Parks, laying the foundation for a tourism industry which thrives to this mean solar day. Glacier National Park (MT) was established with a similar relationship to tourism promotions by the Slap-up Northern Railway.^[34] While settlers filled the valleys and mining towns, conservation and preservation ethics began to take hold. U.S. President Harrison established several forest reserves in the Rocky Mountains in 1891–1892. In 1905, U.Due south. President Theodore Roosevelt extended the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve to include the area now managed equally Rocky Mountain National Park. Economic development began to middle on mining, forestry, agriculture, and recreation, too as on the service industries that support them. Tents and camps became ranches and farms, forts and railroad train stations became towns, and some towns became cities.^[7]

Economic system [edit]

Industry and evolution [edit]

Economical resource of the Rocky Mountains are varied and abundant. Minerals institute in the Rocky Mountains include significant deposits of copper, gilded, pb, molybdenum, silver, tungsten, and zinc. The Wyoming Basin and several smaller areas comprise significant reserves of coal, natural gas, oil shale, and petroleum. For instance, the Climax mine, located near Leadville, Colorado, was the largest producer of molybdenum in the world. Molybdenum is used in oestrus-resistant steel in such things equally cars and planes. The Climax mine employed over three,000 workers. The Coeur d'Alene mine of northern Idaho produces silver, lead, and zinc. Canada's largest coal mines are near Fernie, British Columbia and Sparwood, British Columbia; additional coal mines be nearly Hinton, Alberta, and in the Northern Rockies surrounding Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia.^[seven]

Abased mines with their wakes of mine tailings and toxic wastes dot the Rocky Mountain mural. In one major example, eighty years of zinc mining profoundly polluted the river and bank near Eagle River in north-key Colorado. High concentrations of the metal carried by spring runoff harmed algae, moss, and trout populations. An economic assay of mining effects at this site revealed declining property values, degraded water quality, and the loss of recreational opportunities. The assay also revealed that cleanup of the river could yield $2.three million in additional revenue from recreation. In 1983, the former possessor of the zinc mine was sued past the Colorado Attorney General for the $4.8 million cleanup costs; five years later, ecological recovery was considerable.^{[7] [35]}

The Rocky Mountains incorporate several sedimentary basins that are rich in coalbed marsh gas. Coalbed methane is natural gas that arises from coal, either through bacterial action or through exposure to high temperature. Coalbed methane supplies 7 percentage of the natural gas used in the Us. The largest coalbed methane sources in the Rocky Mountains are in the San Juan Bowl in New Mexico and Colorado and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. These two basins are estimated to contain 38 trillion cubic feet of gas. Coalbed methane can exist recovered by dewatering the coal bed, and separating the gas from the water; or injecting water to fracture the coal to release the gas (so-called hydraulic fracturing).^[36]

Agriculture and forestry are major industries. Agronomics includes dryland and irrigated farming and livestock grazing. Livestock are frequently moved between high-tiptop summertime pastures and low-meridian winter pastures, a practice known equally transhumance.^[7]

Tourism [edit]

Every year the breathtaking areas of the Rocky Mountains draw millions of tourists.^[7] The primary language of the Rocky Mountains is English language. But in that location are as well linguistic pockets of Spanish and indigenous languages.

People from all over the earth visit the sites to hike, camp, or engage in mountain sports.^{[7] [37]} In the summer season, examples of tourist attractions are:

In the United States:

• Yellowstone National Park
• Glacier National Park
• Grand Teton National Park
• Rocky Mountain National Park
• Peachy Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
• Sawtooth National Recreation Area
• Flathead Lake

In Canada, the mountain range contains these national parks:

• Banff National Park
• Jasper National Park
• Kootenay National Park
• Waterton Lakes National Park
• Yoho National Park

Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta edge each other and are collectively known equally Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

In the wintertime, skiing is the main attraction, with dozens of Rocky Mount ski areas and resorts.

The next Columbia Mountains in British Columbia comprise major resorts such equally Panorama and Boot Horse, as well as Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park.

There are numerous provincial parks in the British Columbia Rockies, the largest and most notable being Mountain Assiniboine Provincial Park, Mount Robson Provincial Park, Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park, Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park, Stone Mountain Provincial Park and Muncho Lake Provincial Park.

Encounter likewise [edit]

• Arabian Rocky Mountains
• Canadian Rocky Mountains, in British Columbia and Alberta
• Geology of the Rocky Mountains
• Hazards in the Air current River Range
• List of mount peaks of the Rocky Mountains
• Little Rocky Mountains, mount range in north-central Montana
• Mountain man
• Rocky Mountains subalpine zone
• Southern Rocky Mountains

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} 3 of these peaks prevarication on the Alberta-British Columbia edge.

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Further reading [edit]

• Baron, Jill (2002). Rocky Mountain futures: an ecological perspective. Isle Press. ISBNane-55963-953-ix.
• Newby, Rick (2004). The Rocky Mountain region. Greenwood Printing. ISBN0-313-32817-X.

External links [edit]

• Colorado Rockies Forests ecoregion images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu (ho-hum modem version)
• North Central Rockies Forests ecoregion images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu (tiresome modem version)
• South Cardinal Rockies Forests ecoregion images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu (slow modem version)
• Sunset on the Meridian of the Rocky Mountains, CO, Historical Lodge of Pennsylvania

East Of The Rocky Mountains,

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains

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