Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range

Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range
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ISBN-10 : 0878425950
ISBN-13 : 9780878425952
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Book Synopsis Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range by : Lon Abbott

Download or read book Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range written by Lon Abbott and published by Geology Underfoot. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book¿s 21 chapters, or vignettes, lead you to easily accessible stops along the Front Range¿s highways and byways, where you¿ll meet the apatosaur and other dinosaurs who roamed the floodplains and beaches that once covered the Front Range; look for diamonds in rare, out-of-the-way volcanic pipes; learn how America¿s mountain, Pikes Peak, developed from molten magma miles below the surface only to become an important visual landmark for early Great Plains¿ travelers; and walk the Gangplank, a singularly important plateau for both nineteenth-century westward expansion and our understanding of the Front Range¿s most recent exhumation.


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