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Title:
Unfolding the geology of the West / edited by Stephen M. Keller, Colorado Geological Survey, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA, Matthew L. Morgan, Colorado Geological Survey, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA.
Author:
Keller, Stephen M., editor.

Morgan, Matthew L., editor.

Geological Society of America.
Publication Information:
Boulder, Colorado, USA : The Geological Society of America, 2016.
Call Number:
QE747.W47 U54 2016
Abstract:
"Sixteen geologic field guides explore areas in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Montana"-- Provided by publisher.
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ISBN:
9780813700441
Series:
Field guide ; 44

Field guide (Geological Society of America) ; 44.
Physical Description:
vi, 419 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / Stephen M. Keller ad Matthew L. Morgan -- Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology. Exploring the ancient volcanic and lacustrine environments of the Oligocene Creede caldera and environs, San Juan Mountains, Colorado / Daniel Larsen and Peter Lipman ; Sandstones and Utah's canyon country : deposition, diagenesis, exhumation, and landscape evolution / David Loope, Richard Kettler, Kendra Murray, Joel Pederson, and Peter Reiners ; The Permian-Triassic transition in Colorado / James W. Hagadorn, Karen R. Whiteley, Bonita L. Lahey, Charles M. Henderson, and Christopher S. Holm-Denoma ; Getting to the bottom of the High Plains Aquifer : new insights into the depositional history, stratigraphy, and paleoecology of the Cenozoic High Plains / J.J. Smith, A.L. Layzell, W.E. Lukens, M.L. Morgan, S.M. Keller, Robert A. Martin, and David L. Fox ; Overview of the Eocene Castle Rock Conglomerate, east-central Colorado : remapping the fluvial system, and implications for the history of the Colorado Piedmont and Front Range / Stephen M. Keller and Matthew L. Morgan ; U.S. Geological Survey collections -- preserving the past to inform the future : tour three federal repositiories -- Core Research Center, Paleontological Collection, and the NSF National Ice Core Laboratory / Natalie Latysh -- Structure and metamorphism. South Park, Colorado : the interplay of tectonics and sedimentation creates one of Colorado's crown jewels / Peter E. Barkmann, Edward J. Sterne, Marieke Dechesne, and Karen J. Houck ; Progressive development of basement-involved foreland thrust belts : results from the NSF/EarthScope Bighorn Project applied to the Laramide orogeny in the Colorado Front Range / Eric A. Erslev, Karen Aydinian, and Laura Kennedy ; Regional Al2SiO5 triple-point metamorphic rocks of northern New Mexico : a field trip to honor the career contributions of Lincoln Hollister to petrology and tectonics / Christopher G. Daniel, Christopher L. Andronicos, and Ruth F. Aronoff ; Transect across the northeastern margin of the Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin and Lewis thrust, Glacier National Park, Montana / James W. Sears, John S. MacLean, and Stuart D. Parker ; Roadside faults, folds, fossils, crystals, and diamond pipes -- sampling the geologic diversity of northern Colorado / Barbara EchoHawk and Uwe Kackstaetter -- Quaternary landscape evolution. The 2016 Kirk Bryan field trip : Quaternary landslides, fluvial terraces, and recent geomorphic events along the Colorado Front Range / Melissa A. Foster, Robert S. Anderson, Paul R. Rindfleisch, Peter W. Birkeland, Joanna R. Redwine, John Pitlick, and Rachel C. Glade ; Geomorphic evolution of the San Lus Basin and Rio Grande in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico / C.A. Ruleman, M.N. Machette, R.A. Thompson, D.P. Miggins, B.M. Goehring, and J.B. Paces ; Pinedale glacial history of the upper Arkansas River valley : new moraine chronologies, modeling results, and geologic mapping / Avriel D. Schweinsberg, Jason P. Briner, Ralph R. Shroba, Joseph M. Licciardi, Eric M. Leonard, Keith A. Brugger, and Charles M. Russell -- Engineering and environmental geology. The consequences of living with geology : a model field trip for the general public / David M. Abbott Jr., and David C. Noe ; New perspectives on a 140-year legacy of mining and abandoned mine cleanup in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado / Douglas B. Yager, David L. Fey, Thomas P. Chapin, and Raymond H. Johnson.
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