Prairie Peak and Plateau: A Guide to the Geology of Colorado
by John Chronic
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About this eBook
- Author
- Chronic, Halka, 1923-2013
- Title
- Prairie, Peak, and Plateau: A Guide to the Geology of Colorado
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Geology -- Colorado -- Guidebooks
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60143
- Release Date
- August 21, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PRAIRIE PEAK and PLATEAU — ACKNOWLEDGMENTS — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — PRAIRIE PEAK and PLATEAU
- 2.Introduction
- 3.I Colorado’s Three Provinces — THE PRAIRIES — THE PEAKS — Front Range — Wet Mountains — Sangre de Cristo Range and Spanish Peaks — Park Range and Rabbit Ears Range — Gore Range — Tenmile and Mosquito Ranges — Sawatch Range — Elk Mountains and West Elk Mountains — San Juan Mountains — Uinta Mountains — THE PLATEAUS
- 4.II Geologic History of Colorado — PRECAMBRIAN ERA — PALEOZOIC ERA — Cambrian Period (500-570 million years ago) — Ordovician Period (440-500 million years ago) — Silurian Period (400-440 million years ago) — Devonian Period (350-400 million years ago) — Mississippian Period (310-350 million years ago) — Pennsylvanian Period (270-310 million years ago) — Permian Period (223-270 million years ago) — MESOZOIC ERA — Triassic Period (180-225 million years ago) — Jurassic Period (135-180 million years ago) — Cretaceous Period (70-135 million years ago) — CENOZOIC ERA — Tertiary Period (3-70 million years ago) — Quaternary Period (3 million years ago to present)
- 5.III Geology and Man in Colorado — GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS — Boulder County — Central City and Idaho Springs — Georgetown, Empire, and Silver Plume — Leadville — Breckenridge — Fairplay — Silverton — Ouray — Aspen — Creede — Cripple Creek — Climax — RADIUM, URANIUM, AND VANADIUM — OIL, NATURAL GAS, AND OIL SHALE — COAL — CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS — Sand, Gravel, and Clay — Stone — Lime and Gypsum — GEMS AND ORNAMENTAL STONES — WATER — Surface Water — Groundwater — Caves — Springs — ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
- 6.GLOSSARY
- 7.SUGGESTED READING
- 8.INDEX
- 9.Transcriber’s Notes
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