Archive: Feb 2020

A uranium-rich zone in a sandstone of the Morrison Formation, Carnation Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado, January 2007. Photo credit: Colorado Geological Survey.

Energy

February 18, 2020

Colorado’s Uranium Deposits

[Ed: this document, written in 2011 by Jim Burnell, Ph.D., P.G. (former Senior Minerals Geologist, Colorado Geological Survey), provides an…

Slice of a pallasite meteorite, illustrating large olivine (peridot) crystals in a matrix of nickel-iron minerals. This specimen, known as the Brenham meteorite (DMNH EGT.23.0), is from Haviland, Kansas, and is ~25 cm wide. Photo credit: R. Wicker for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Geology

February 10, 2020

DMNS Meteorite Collection

The Meteorite Collection of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science publication