Skyline Drive General, Geology May 19, 2022 Fremont County geologic attractions Fremont County, two hours south of Denver, is located on the south-central Front Range of Colorado in a geological region called the Cañon City Embayment. Its geological environment and history is incredibly diverse as are its paleontological treasures. It is the only county in Colorado featuring two…
Aggregate quarry near Durango Energy, Minerals, Publications February 4, 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 2020-2021 report isn’t finished quite yet, but the comprehensive bibliographic list that it is based on is. This list includes state, local and federal government sources, as well as private…
Looking northwest to Hells Kitchen from Ekkert General, Geology, Publications April 26, 2021 Recent STATEMAP quadrangles The CGS actively participates in the STATEMAP portion of the US Geological Survey’s National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP), a nation-wide effort to generate comprehensive…
OF-19-03 Geologic Map of the La Salle Quadrangle Geology, Publications 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 STATEMAP 7.5-minute, 1:24,000 quadrangle mapping products to our online store: OF-19-03 Geologic Map of the La Salle Quadrangle, Weld County, Colorado. Our…
OF-16-05 Geologic Map of the Longmont Quadrangle Geology, Publications April 12, 2017 OF-16-05 Geologic Map of the Longmont Quadrangle, Boulder and Weld Counties, Colorado We just uploaded the most recent of our STATEMAP mapping products to our online store: the Geologic Map of the Longmont Quadrangle, Boulder and Weld Counties, Colorado. The STATEMAP series in general provides a detailed description of the…
The Purgatoire River dinosaur trackway at twilight Geology October 1, 2000 A Dash with Dinosaurs In the next months, we will be sharing some unpublished field trip guides that we have made over the years. The occasion for this one was “Earth Science Week” back in 2000, an annual event initiated by the…