GSA Field Guide 1: Colorado and adjacent areas

GSA FIELD GUIDE 1: Colorado and Adjacent Areas......Page 1
Front matter......Page 2
ISBN 0-8137-0001-9......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Note......Page 7
Bouncing boulders, rising rivers, and sneaky soils:
A primer of geologic hazards and engineering geology
along Colorado’s Front Range......Page 8
Laramide to Holocene structural development
of the northern Colorado Front Range......Page 28
Laramide faulting and tectonics of the northeastern
Front Range of Colorado......Page 48
Hydrogeology and wetlands of the mountains and foothills
near Denver, Colorado......Page 58
Field trip to Manitou Springs, Colorado, with specific emphasis
on the sediments of Cave of the Winds and their relationship
to nearby alluvial deposits and spring sediments......Page 68
200,000 years of climate change recorded in eolian sediments of the
High Plains of eastern Colorado and western Nebraska......Page 78
Walking tour of paleontologist George G. Simpson’s
boyhood neighborhood......Page 100
Active evaporite tectonics and collapse in the Eagle River valley and
the southwestern flank of the White River uplift, Colorado......Page 104
Coal mining in the 21st century:
Yampa coal field, northwest Colorado......Page 122
Field guide to the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in
the Raton basin, Colorado and New Mexico......Page 142
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology
of the Cambrian-Ordovician of Colorado......Page 164
Field guide for the Heart Mountain detachment
and associated structures, northeast Absaroka Range,Wyoming......Page 184
Back......Page 209