“Dirt Meridian,” which opened at Yancey Richardson Gallery this week, features photographs that Moore took of the Nebraska panhandle, which lies to the west of the Hundredth Meridian.

One can literally step over the meridian line on foot, but the boundary it represents is more gradual. In 1890, Powell wrote, "Passing from east to west across this belt a wonderful transformation ...

That for three hundred miles of said road most mountainous and difficult of construction, to wit: one hundred and fifty miles westerly from the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and one hundred ...

Andrew Moore Examines the Precarious Nature of Life Along the 100th Meridian. The photographer pairs intimate portraits with dramatic bird's-eye views of the expansive landscape By Adam Ryder | ...

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Climate Change Shifting Boundary Along 100th Meridian 100th Meridian, Which Divides the Arid West From the More Humid East, May Be Shifting Because of Climate Change | News | kvoa.com Skip to main ...

In 1878, noted geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell observed that the 100th Meridian, the longitudinal line that slices north-to-south through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, ...

The 100th meridian marks a ... “It’s very unusual,” Columbia University climatologist Richard Seager said of the dramatic change marked by the 100th meridian. “The only other one that ...