Mountain Press Colorado Rocks!
Discover 50 sites that span Colorado's geologic history with Colorado Rocks! It contains beautiful photographs and informative figures and maps.
- With beautiful photographs and informative figures and maps, this guidebook will help you select a destination and head for the door
Made in USA.
These 50 well-chosen sites—many on every geologist's bucket list—span Colorado's geologic history from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks of the Black Canyon to the constantly shifting landscape of the Great Sand Dunes. The asteroid-produced iridium-enriched layer that marks the end of the dinosaurs is here, as are insects and petrified wood exquisitely preserved at Florissant Fossil Beds, the pure white marble used in the Lincoln Memorial, mysterious Unaweep Canyon that lacks a river, and colorful mounds of silicious sinter at Pagosa Springs. The Great Unconformity, a famous geologic feature tucked away in a few remote locations in other western states, pops up at 7 of the featured sites. The late 1800s rush for precious metals produced a network of roads that crisscross the towering mountains, making Colorado's fascinating geology extremely accessible to the average sightseer. With beautiful photographs and informative figures and maps, this guidebook will help you select a destination and head for the door.
| Best Use | Travel |
|---|---|
| State / Province | Colorado |
| Format | Paperback |
| Dimensions | 9 x 8.375 inches |
| Author(s) | Magdalena S. Donahue and Marli B. Miller |
| Publisher | Geological Society of America |
| Number of Pages | 144 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780878427055 |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
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