By: magic-gigapans
Image: Jeffrey Rollins, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 29 Apr 2020
Last Updated: 20 May 2020

1.18 gigapixels
56,712 x 20,756 pixels
189.0 in X 69.2 in at 300dpi

44.615818, -108.132180 - Facing Southwest Sheep Canyon has been cut by the Bighorn River perpendicular to the axis of the Sheep Mountain Anticline, which runs NW –SE. Anticlines are defined as folds having the oldest rock units exposed at their core, so as one looks from left to right across this panorama they are essentially looking back in time through the depositional record in this area from the Triassic Chugwater Formation (The bright red siltstone to the far left) to the Mississippian Madison Limestone (Massive tan limestone to the right). This is an excellent display of the anticline’s steep forelimb: strata are folded from near horizontal to roughly 60 degrees to the northeast. To view Sheep Canyon from the west, click here: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/bQwVukWu0ZTbQoEE To view The Nose, click here: https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/gWaeR06Z5u8SA7eM