Red arrows show the trace of the Red Rocks Fault

Red Rocks Fault scarp runs through bed of Big Sheep Creek

U-shaped valleysAretes

Tarns

McDonald, C., Lopez, D.A., Berg, R.B., Gibson, R.I., 2005, Preliminary geologic map of the Ringling 30' x 60' quadrangle, central Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Open-File Report 511, 1 sheet(s), 1:100,000. McDonald, C., Lopez, D.A., Berg, R.B., Gibson, R.I., 2005, Preliminary geologic map of the Ringling 30' x 60' quadrangle, central Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Open-File Report 511, 1 sheet(s), 1:100,000.

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Wise River

Braided flood plain

Town of Melrose

Big Hole River

Resistant igneous rock

Continental Fault

East Ridge

Berkeley Pit

Tailings pond

Tailings dam

Continental Pit

Continental Fault

Continental Pit

U-shaped valleys

Mill Creek glacial valley horn

arêtes

cirques

tarns

Mount Hagan

Mount Powell

U-shaped valleys

Horn

cirque

tarns

Many beach line traces

Missoula

Clark Fork River

Clar

k For

k Rive

rBitterroot River

Cedar creek

Fan outline

This oxbow meander will be cut off during a future flood.

Flood plain

Oxbow lake, or billabong as they are called in Australia.

Goodrich Gulch alluvial fan

Goodrich Gulch

Fault scarp

Arcuate slump scarpsArcuate slump scarps

Slumped masses – Slumped masses – note bulges at toes of note bulges at toes of slumpsslumps

Head scarpHead scarp

Slumped massSlumped mass

Toe bulgeToe bulge

rock glacierrock glacier

Berg, R.B., Lopez, D.A., 2000, Geologic map of the Livingston 30' x 60' quadrangle, south-central Montana, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology: Open-File Report 406, 1 sheet(s), 1:100,000.

McCartney Mountain McCartney Mountain granite granite

Folded bedrockFolded bedrockBig Hole River

Big Hole River

Notch BottomNotch Bottom

North Fork Blackfoot River

Kleinschmidt Lake

Browns Lakepotholes

Kleinschmidt Flats alluvial fan

U-shaped valley

cirques

arete

Red MountainStonewall Mountain

Grant

Barrett Creek alluvial fan

Horse Prairie Creek flood plain