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September 12, 2022
Introducing our new Director
Matt Morgan, Colorado Geological Survey, Director and Colorado State Geologist, Red Rocks Park, Morrison, Colorado, July 2022. Photo…
2020s
Publications from the 2020s
Geology
August 16, 2022
The Great ShakeOut
The origins of The Great ShakeOut project lie, unsurprisingly, in Southern California, one of the more…
Geology
March 15, 2022
Recent reports published
OF-20-11 Alkaline Complexes of the Wet Mountains Area, Colorado: A Geological Summary, Bibliography, and Data Compilation…
General
February 21, 2022
Cumbres and Toltec Geology Train
We just found out about this year’s Cumbres & Toltec Geology Train adventures in southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico.
Minerals
February 3, 2022
IS-84 Colorado Mineral and Energy Industry Activities 2020-2021 – bibliography
Every year, the CGS Minerals section prepares a comprehensive survey of the mineral and energy industries across the state. The…
Hazards
June 23, 2021
HAZ-2021-01 Post-wildfire Hazards
Noting that we were getting hundreds of search hits on a previous version of an info-brochure that we originally published…
Geology
April 26, 2021
Recent STATEMAP quadrangles
The CGS actively participates in the STATEMAP portion of…
Geology
November 24, 2020
Re-introducing: Historic Metal Mining Districts
As the reconstruction of our website continues, we recently redeployed a popular package of information that was compiled and made…
Hazards
October 13, 2020
Seismometer installed on campus
Mines students partner with the CGS to install seismometer on campus Colorado School of Mines geophysics students enrolled…
Geology
September 9, 2020
Recent STATEMAP quadrangles
The CGS actively participates in the STATEMAP portion of…
Geology
July 22, 2020
Field Safety
It's field mapping time, and much of our staff are out in several different areas of the state, doing field work. A majority of the field work is part of the STATEMAP program—preparing geologic maps of particular quadrangles for the US Geological Survey sponsors of that nation-wide program.
Hazards
July 14, 2020
Colorado Scientific Society lecture online
TITLE: Historic Avalanches in Hinsdale County, Colorado: Impacts to Lake City, old mining dams, and new evidence for the association…
Water
June 7, 2020
New Colorado Groundwater Atlas released
ON-010 Colorado Groundwater Atlas
Geology
April 24, 2020
OF-19-03 Geologic Map of the La Salle Quadrangle, Weld County, Colorado
As we continue to expand geological mapping coverage of Colorado, we recently uploaded another of our…