Geology underfoot along Colorado's Front Range

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Lon Abbott, Lon Abbott
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Geology underfoot along Colorado's Front Range

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English
Pages
338

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Geology underfoot along Colorado's Front Range
2012, Mountain Press Publishing Company
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Table of Contents

Colorado diamonds? It's no hoax!
Diamond pipes along the front range
Walking the gangplank
Soapstone Prairie Natural Area
Nature's master sculptor
Trail Ridge Road
Catastrophe in the canyon
The devastating Big Thompson Flood
Deja vu all over again
Mountains come, mountains go at Eldorado Canyon State Park
From pediments to plutonium
The history of Rocky Flats
Where Colorado began
The Colorado mineral belt at Idaho Springs
Raising, razing, and rebirthing the rockies
Tracing the mountains' ups and downs around Golden
The whole shebang
Red Rocks to Golden : 1,700 million years of front range history
Denver's Dinosaur Freeway
Dinosaur Ridge
A legacy of fire and flood
The wall mountain tuff and the castle rock conglomerate
An extraordinary fossil ecosystem
Florissant fossil beds national monument
Colorado's mountain of gold
Cripple Creek
Purple Mountain majesty
Pikes Peak, America's mountain
Spelunking in an ancient sea
Cave of the winds
Building a garden fit for the gods
Faulting and fins at Garden of the Gods and nearby parks
Hallmarks of a hothouse world
Paint Mines Interpretive Park
A wound in the skin of the Earth
Royal Gorge
Jurassic Park
Dinosaurs of the Cañon City Area
Legendary dikes
The Spanish Peaks
The day the dinosaurs died
The infamous K-T boundary at Trinidad Lake State Park.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Geology underfoot

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Dewey Decimal Class
557.88/6
Library of Congress
QE92.F7 A23 2012

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pages cm.
Number of pages
338

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25384375M
ISBN 13
9780878425952
LCCN
2012021387
OCLC/WorldCat
798613338

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