Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range
by Lon Abbott and Terri Cook
Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range
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| Preface |
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| Geology of Colorado's Front Range |
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| 1. Colorado Diamonds - It's No Hoax! | |
| Diamond Pipes along the Front Range |
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| 2. Walking the Gangplank | |
| Soapstone Prairie Natural Area |
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| 3. Nature's Master Sculptor | |
| Trail Ridge Road |
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| 4. Catastrophe in the Canyon | |
| The Devastating Big Thompson Flood |
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| 5. Deja Vu All Over Again | |
| Mountains Come, Mountains Go at Eldorado Canyon State Park |
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| 6. From Pediments to Plutonium | |
| The History of Rocky Flats |
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| 7. Where Colorado Began | |
| The Colorado Mineral Belt at Idaho Springs |
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| 8. Raising, Razing and Rebirthing the Rockies | |
| Tracing the Mountains' Ups and Downs around Golden |
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| 9. The Whole Shebang | |
| Red Rocks to Golden: 1,700 Million Years of Front Range History |
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| 10. Denver's Dinosaur Freeway | |
| Dinosaur Ridge |
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| 11. A Legacy of Fire and Flood | |
| The Wall Mountain Tuff and the Castle Rock Conglomerate |
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| 12. An Extraordinary Fossil Ecosystem | |
| Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument |
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| 13. Colorado's Mountain of Gold | |
| Cripple Creek |
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| 14. Purple Mountain Majesty | |
| Pikes Peak, America's Mountain |
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| 15. Spelunking in an Ancient Sea | |
| Cave of the Winds |
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| 16. Building a Garden Fit for the Gods | |
| Faulting and Fins at Garden of the Gods and Nearby Parks |
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| 17. Hallmarks of the Hothouse World | |
| Paint Mines Interpretive Park |
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| 18. A Wound in the Skin of the Earth | |
| The Royal Gorge |
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| 19. Jurassic Park | |
| Dinosaurs of the Canon City Area |
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| 20. Legendary Dikes | |
| The Spanish Peaks |
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| 21. The Day the Dinosaurs Died | |
| The Infamous K-T Boundary at Trinidad Lake State Park |
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| Glossary |
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| Sources of More Information |
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| Index |
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