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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range of the Rocky Mountains extending from southeast Idaho to central Utah and rising to 3,636 m (11,928 ft).
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It was formed by the last of a series of movements in the earth which raised the great block known as the Wasatch Range to an elevation of six thousand feet above the plains at its base.
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The route climbs to over 9,000 feet in elevation to provide breathtaking views of Utah valley, the Wasatch Mountains and 11,928-foot Mount Nebo, the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range.
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Saturday morning as the sun peeked over the Wasatch Range, I picked Victor up and we drove to the airport.
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The La Sal and Abajo mountains are nearer the Rocky Mountains than the Wasatch Range and have faunal affinities with the southern Rockies in Colorado.
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We are going to see heavy snow in the Wasatch Range.
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The Wasatch Front is steeper, more rugged, and wetter than more easterly parts of the Wasatch Range.
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It includes the extensively glaciated Uinta Mountains, the Wasatch Range, and the Wasatch Plateau.
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It is fed by perennial streams and aqueducts that originate in the adjacent Wasatch Range.
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Such subalpine forests are far more extensive in the Uinta Mountains than in the less massive Wasatch Range.
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Agricultural valleys occur especially in the eastern part of the Wasatch Range.
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