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Pegunungan Rocky

Daerah White Goat Wilderness, Alberta, Kanada

Pegunungan Rocky, biasanya disebut Rockies, merupakan rangkaian pegunungan yang memanjang di sebelah barat Amerika Utara. Panjangnya lebih dari 3 ribu mil (4.800 kilometer) membentang dari British Columbia, di Kanada, sampai New Mexico, di Amerika Serikat. Puncak tertingginya adalah Gunung Elbert, di Colorado, kurang lebih 4.401 meter) di atas permukaan laut (dpl). Gunung Robson, berada pada ketingian 3.954 meter adalah puncak tertinggi di Canadian Rockies. Sistem Pegunungan Rocky Mountain termasuk dalam United States physiographic region.

Geografi dan geologi

Pegunungan Teton di Taman Nasional Grand Teton, Wyoming.

Pegunungan Rocky biasanya didefinisikan membentang dari Liard River di British Columbia, sampai ke Rio Grande di New Mexico. Pegunungan ini dapat juga dianggap membentang dari Alaska atau Mexico, namun pegunungan tersebut lebih dianggap sebagai bagian dari seluruh American cordillera daripada bagian dari Rockies.

Bagian termuda dari pegunungan Rocky terangkat semasa zaman Cretaceous akhir (140 juta-65 juta tahun yang lalu), meskipun sebagian pegunungan sebelah selatan terangkat pada zaman Precambrian (3.980 juta-600 juta tahun yang lalu). Kondisi geologinya terdiri dari kompleks batuan beku dan batuan metamorf; yang termuda adalah batuan sedimen (berada di sepanjang batas selatan pegunungan Rocky), dan batuan vulkanik dari zaman Tersier (65 juta-1.8 juta tahun yl.) berada di daerah Pegunugan San Juan dan di beberapa daerah lain.

Referensi

  • Athearn, R. G. 1960. High country empire: the High Plains and Rocky Mountains. McGraw-Hill, New York. 358 pp.
  • Brandt, E. 1993. How much is a gray wolf worth? National Wildlife 31:4­12.
  • Buchholtz, C. W. 1983. Rocky Mountain National Park: a history. Colorado Associated University Press, Boulder. 255 pp.
  • Grove, J. M. 1990. The little ice age. Rutledge Press, New York. 498 pp.
  • Jackson, D. 1962. Letters of the Lewis and Clark expedition with related documents 1783­1854. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. 728 pp.
  • Kay, C. E. 1994. Aboriginal overkill. Human Nature 5:359­398.
  • Lavender, D. 1975. The Rockies. Harper and Row, New York. 433 pp.
  • Knight, D. H. 1994. Mountains and plains: the ecology of Wyoming landscapes. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 338 pp.
  • Peterson, J. A., editor. 1986. Paleotectonics and sedimentation in the Rocky Mountain Region, United States. Memoir 41, American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Tulsa, Okla. 693 pp.
  • Pierce, K. L. 1979. History and dynamics of glaciation in the northern Yellowstone National Park area. Professional Paper 729-F. U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. 90 pp

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