Sheepeater Cliff
The Sheepeater Cliffs are a series of exposed cliffs made up of columnar basalt in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The lava was deposited about 500,000 years ago during one of the periodic basaltic floods in Yellowstone Caldera, and later exposed by the Gardner River. The cliffs are noted as a textbook example of a basaltic flow with well defined joints and hexagonal columns. They were named after a band of Eastern Shoshone known as Tukuaduka (sheep eaters). Many of the exposed cliffs are located along a steep inaccessible canyon cut by the Gardner near Bunsen Peak, but some of the cliffs located just off the Grand Loop Road can be reached by car.
References
External links
- National Park Service Video – Sheepeater Cliffs
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and history
- Fort Yellowstone
- Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District
- North Entrance Road Historic District
- Obsidian Cliff Kiosk
- Roosevelt Arch
- U.S. Post Office (Yellowstone National Park)
and geology
- Antler Peak
- Bunsen Peak
- Clagett Butte
- Electric Peak
- Gallatin Range
- Gardiner, Montana
- Gardner River
- Golden Gate Canyon
- Gray Peak
- Kingman Pass
- Joseph Peak
- Mammoth Hot Springs
- Mount Everts
- Obsidian Cliff
- Semi-Centennial Geyser
- Sepulcher Mountain Sheepeater Cliff
- Terrace Mountain
- Yellowstone River
- List of Yellowstone National Park-related articles
- Media related to Mammoth Hot Springs at Wikimedia Commons
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