Rocky Mountains, known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.
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Rocky Mountains, known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.
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Rocky Mountains are the easternmost portion of the expansive North American Cordillera.
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Rocks in the Rocky Mountains were formed before the mountains were raised by tectonic forces.
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Current Rocky Mountains arose in the Laramide orogeny from between 80 and 55 Ma.
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Rocky Mountains are an important habitat for a great deal of well-known wildlife, such as wolves, elk, moose, mule and white-tailed deer, pronghorn, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, badgers, black bears, grizzly bears, coyotes, lynxes, cougars, and wolverines.
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Minerals found in the Rocky Mountains include significant deposits of copper, gold, lead, molybdenum, silver, tungsten, and zinc.
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Rocky Mountains contain several sedimentary basins that are rich in coalbed methane.
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The largest coalbed methane sources in the Rocky Mountains are in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico and Colorado and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
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