Geology underfoot along Colorado's Front Range
By: Lon Abbott and Terri Cook
Contributors: Cook, Terri, 1969-
Series: Geology underfoot
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780878425952
Subjects: National parks and reserves; Guidebooks; Geology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colorado diamonds? It's no hoax!; title: Diamond pipes along the front range; title: Walking the gangplank; title: Soapstone Prairie Natural Area; title: Nature's master sculptor; title: Trail Ridge Road; title: Catastrophe in the canyon; title: The devastating Big Thompson Flood; title: Deja vu all over again; title: Mountains come, mountains go at Eldorado Canyon State Park; title: From pediments to plutonium; title: The history of Rocky Flats; title: Where Colorado began; title: The Colorado mineral belt at Idaho Springs; title: Raising, razing, and rebirthing the rockies; title: Tracing the mountains' ups and downs around Golden; title: The whole shebang; title: Red Rocks to Golden : 1,700 million years of front range history; title: Denver's Dinosaur Freeway; title: Dinosaur Ridge; title: A legacy of fire and flood; title: The wall mountain tuff and the castle rock conglomerate; title: An extraordinary fossil ecosystem; title: Florissant fossil beds national monument; title: Colorado's mountain of gold; title: Cripple Creek; title: Purple Mountain majesty; title: Pikes Peak, America's mountain; title: Spelunking in an ancient sea; title: Cave of the winds; title: Building a garden fit for the gods; title: Faulting and fins at Garden of the Gods and nearby parks; title: Hallmarks of a hothouse world; title: Paint Mines Interpretive Park; title: A wound in the skin of the Earth; title: Royal Gorge; title: Jurassic Park; title: Dinosaurs of the Cañon City Area; title: Legendary dikes; title: The Spanish Peaks; title: The day the dinosaurs died; title: The infamous K-T boundary at Trinidad Lake State Park.