Beartooth Lake and Butte.
Baertooh Butte (10,518 ' elev.) rises 1,613 feet above Beartooth lake on the Beartooth Plataeu in Wyoming's Absaroka Shoshone Yellowstone National Park. The peak and lake lie in Wyoming near the Montana State Line.The Butte from the lakeshore to the top is composed of Paleozoic sedimentary ocks from the Cambrian to Devonian in age (540 to 358 Million years ago). These limestone, shales, dolomites, sandstone, and minor conglomerate ere mostly deposited in a shallow seaway. In Devonian time the arae was an estuarine chanel cut down into older rocks. These beds are famous for fish and plant fossils found at the Beartooth locality.
The remnant of lower Paleozoic rock found at the Butte is preserved in the hanging wall of a northwest-trending normal fault called the Top of the World Fault. Beartooth Butte is properly termed a nunatak, or an isolated hill that once projected above the surface of glacial ice that surrounded it during the Pleistocene. Both the wedge shape of the butte and the absence of glacial deposits at its summit attest to the flow of ice from the northeast to the southwest, around Beartooth Butte. The ice flow, however, was resonsible for the depression now occupied by Beartooth Lake.
Info for this caption taken from:
www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=23431
www.academia.edu/11539271/A_field_guide_to_the_Cambrian_s...
www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p015_3/rmrs_p015_3_160_167.pdf
William Gamewell Pierce and Willis H. Nelson; Geologic map of the Beartooth Butte quadrangle, Park County, Wyoming; Geologic Quadrangle 935; United States Geological Survey
Beartooth Lake and Butte.
Baertooh Butte (10,518 ' elev.) rises 1,613 feet above Beartooth lake on the Beartooth Plataeu in Wyoming's Absaroka Shoshone Yellowstone National Park. The peak and lake lie in Wyoming near the Montana State Line.The Butte from the lakeshore to the top is composed of Paleozoic sedimentary ocks from the Cambrian to Devonian in age (540 to 358 Million years ago). These limestone, shales, dolomites, sandstone, and minor conglomerate ere mostly deposited in a shallow seaway. In Devonian time the arae was an estuarine chanel cut down into older rocks. These beds are famous for fish and plant fossils found at the Beartooth locality.
The remnant of lower Paleozoic rock found at the Butte is preserved in the hanging wall of a northwest-trending normal fault called the Top of the World Fault. Beartooth Butte is properly termed a nunatak, or an isolated hill that once projected above the surface of glacial ice that surrounded it during the Pleistocene. Both the wedge shape of the butte and the absence of glacial deposits at its summit attest to the flow of ice from the northeast to the southwest, around Beartooth Butte. The ice flow, however, was resonsible for the depression now occupied by Beartooth Lake.
Info for this caption taken from:
www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=23431
www.academia.edu/11539271/A_field_guide_to_the_Cambrian_s...
www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p015_3/rmrs_p015_3_160_167.pdf
William Gamewell Pierce and Willis H. Nelson; Geologic map of the Beartooth Butte quadrangle, Park County, Wyoming; Geologic Quadrangle 935; United States Geological Survey