I-25 Around Glenrock, WyomingOperational windmill near Glenrock, Wyoming on I-25
This picture was taken from one of those Wyoming Parking Areas they provide along I-25. The Parking Area was in the Big Muddy Oil Field. Dave Johnson Power Plant near Glenrock, Wyoming
Dave Johnson Power Plant is one of the largest coal-fired plants in the Rockies (810,000 kw). It gets it's coal from mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin northeast of here. It is located about six miles east of Glenrock, Wyoming on the North
Platte River.
Wyoming yard art at its finest on a hillside near Glenrock, Wyoming
Oil Well in the Big Muddy Oil Field near Glenrock, Wyoming
Big Muddy oil field is a typical Wyoming oil producing structure. The field, discovered in 1916, has produced over 30 million barrels of high quality oil. Strata here were arched upward at the time the Rocky Mountains originated about 60 million years ago, to form an anticline, or dome. Because oil is lighter than water, it rose to the crest of the dome where it was trapped in pore spaces between sand grains. The Wall Creek sand lies at a depth of near 3,000 feet and the Dakota sand at about 4,000 feet.
Big Muddy Oil Field Kiosk at a Wyoming Parking Area on I-25 near Glenrock
Typical Wyoming landscape around Glenrock on I-25
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