Ancient Denvers
Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2005
34 pages
978-1-938486-21-0 (ISBN)
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A look at how the geology, environment, and landscape of what is now Denver has changed over the millennia.
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Kirk Johnson | Jan Vriesen | Gary Stabb
Ancient Denvers
Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range
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12/2005
Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
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- Front Cover
- 300 million years ago: Ancestral Rockies-Fountain Formation
- 280 million years ago: Sand Planet-Lyons Sandstone
- 250 million years ago: Slimy Shoreline-Lykins Formation
- 150 million years ago: Long Neck Meadow-Morrison Formation
- 100 million years ago: Colorado's East Coast-Dakota Sandstone
- 70 million years ago: Submarine Colorado-Pierre Shale
- 66 million years ago: Finally, the Rockies-Denver Formation
- 65 million years ago: After Armageddon-Denver Formation
- 64 million years ago: The First Rainforest-Denver Formation
- 55 million years ago: Red Dirt World-Pateosol-Dawson Arkose
- 37 million years ago: The Rockies Explode-Castle Rock Rhyolite
- 34 million years ago: Castle Rock Floods-Castle Rock Conglomerate
- 16,000 years ago: Ice Age Summer-Quaternary Sediments
- 21st century: Front Range Today
