Talk: Evidence for Glaciation in the NW Bighorn Basin

Join the Draper Natural History Museum for a Lunchtime Expedition lecture, Evidence for Glaciation in the Northwestern Bighorn Basin, the Absarokas, and the Beartooth Mountains, presented by geologists Cheryl Jaworowski and Henry Heasler. 

The free, in-person talk takes place in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Coe Auditorium; those who prefer to join us onlinemay register in advance via Zoom webinar at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jZou4TASTtSnEx7QTYx4EQ

There is abundant evidence of the last major Rocky Mountain glaciation as you drive through the northwestern Bighorn Basin, Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains.  Observers of the landscape can see ancient paleorivers associated with melting mountain ice as well as streamlined mountains and ice-polished granite. Gain a new appreciation for northwestern Wyoming’s scenic landscape.