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The Beartooth Mountains are the most scenic set of mountains in America that are not in a national park. The Beartooth Highway between the town of Red Lodge, Montana and Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming traverses the Beartooth Mountains and provided ready access to numerous rock exposures. The rocks in the Beartooths are principally Archean-aged, high-grade metamorphic rocks. Lithologies I have observed in this area include gneiss, migmatite, quartzite, amphibolite, serpentinite, chromitite, meta-iron formation, garnet-biotite metamorphite, plus dikes of diabase and alaskite granite.

The landscape here is a glacially and fluvially eroded high plateau. The glacial erosion occurred during the Pleistocene.

Locality: Rock Creek Vista Point, Beartooth Mountains, southern Montana, USA
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