Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range

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Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range
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The transition from the relatively flat Great Plains to the craggy peaks of Colorado s Front Range is one of North America s most abrupt topographical contrasts. The epic, 1,800-million-year geologic story behind this amazing landscape is even more awe inspiring. In Geology Underfoot along Colorado s Front Range, the most recent addition to the Geology Underfoot series, authors (and geoscientists) Lon Abbott and Terri Cook narrate the Front Range s tale, from its humble beginnings as a flat, nondescript seafloor through several ghostly incarnations as a towering mountain range. 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. A healthy dose of full-color illustrations and photos demystify the concepts put forth in the authors elegant, insightful prose. With Geology Underfoot along Colorado s Front Range in hand, you ll feel like you re traveling through time as you explore the Front Range s hidden geologic treasures.
Country USA
Brand Mountain Press
Manufacturer Geological Society of America
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber colour illustrations, maps
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780878425952
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Mountain Press
Manufacturer	Geological Society of America
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	colour illustrations, maps
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780878425952
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range

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