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Bighorn Basin

The Sheep Mountain anticline in Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, is part of the Rocky Mountains. The mountain chain was formed during a period of intense plate tectonic activity, about 70 million to 40 million years ago. Anticlines are folds that arch upward, with older rocks in the center and younger rocks on the outside.

Photograph by Louis Maher