Prairie, Peak, and Plateau: A Guide to the Geology of ColoradoChronic, John
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Prairie, Peak, and Plateau: A Guide to the Geology of Colorado
Chronic, John
Geology -- Colorado -- Guidebooks
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Colorado’s three geologic provinces 2
Pikes Peak, seen from the Garden of the Gods 4
Rock classification (chart) 5
Stratigraphic column (chart) 7
Jurassic rocks in Colorado (map) 9
East face of Longs Peak 11
Rocky Mountain National Park (east-west profile) 12
Big Thompson Canyon, west of Loveland 13
Red Rocks Amphitheater, west of Denver 14
Colorado Springs area (map and cross section) 15
Joint systems in Precambrian rocks, Boulder Canyon 15
Spanish Peaks, southwest of Walsenburg 18
Hahn’s Peak, north of Steamboat Springs 19
Gore Range from the east 20
Aspen Mountain geology (map) 23
Mt. Sopris, south of Glenwood Springs 24
Ouray, in the San Juan Mountains 25
Steamboat Rock, Dinosaur National Monument 27
Grand Hogback, near Rifle (block diagram) 28
Mt. Garfield, near Grand Junction 30
Precambrian-Cambrian unconformity south of Ouray 34
Geologic map of Colorado 35
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument 36
Precambrian-Cambrian unconformity, Glenwood Canyon 38
Cambrian fossils 39
Ordovician fossils 41
Devonian fossils 43
Mississippian fossils 44
Pennsylvanian paleogeography (map) 45
Fountain Formation northwest of Denver 45
Pennsylvanian fossils 46
Contorted Pennsylvanian rocks near Gypsum 46
Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods 48
Permian reptile tracks 49
The Flatirons, near Boulder 50
Colorado National Monument 51
Morrison Formation, west of Denver 53
Dinosaur bones, found near Morrison 54
Dakota Sandstone hogback 56
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