On the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Geology Train trip General, Geology 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. Because of the high demand in former years, there are two dates this year, 19 June and 17 September 2022. They’ll both…
Looking up the avalanche chute along Henson Creek in Hinsdale County 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 of snow-and-rock avalanches as a means of forming rock glaciers Jon Lovekin, one of our engineering geologists will make a Zoom presentation on the unprecedented geohazard that unfolded during the…
Slice of a pallasite meteorite Geology February 10, 2020 DMNS Meteorite Collection The Meteorite Collection of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science publication
General December 13, 2019 Quote: Robert Frost, geohazards expert Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance Bumped heads together dully And started down the gully. Whole capes caked off in slices. I felt my standpoint shaken…
Downtown Creede in 2010. Photo credit: Vince Matthews for the CGS. Geology, Minerals October 16, 2019 Creede: The Last Boom Town This RMPBS/Colorado Experience video explores the vibrant mining history of Creede, Colorado. In so many ways, the story of Colorado is the story of mining. The town of Creede in the south-central Rockies of Colorado stands as one of the last mining…
Geology April 28, 2018 Quote: Creative geologic ideas? No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room,…
Geology March 24, 2018 A Brief History of Colorado Through Time (Geology of Colorado) One of the many fascinating videos from our geo-friends up the road at University of Colorado-Boulder: A Brief History of Colorado Through Time (Geology of Colorado). The Interactive Geology Project was formed in 2002 by professor Paul Weimer…
Hazards December 30, 2017 Swelling or expansive soils Colorado has many areas susceptible to the problems that swelling soils cause. This video gives some background on the problem.
Water Resources Investigation WRI 2017-1a Geology, Water November 15, 2017 A new Water Resources Investigation: Upper Pierre Aquifer Our friends over at the Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDWR) have just released Water Resources Investigation WRI 2017-1a, The Upper Pierre Aquifer of the Cheyenne Basin, Northeastern Colorado, Geologic Cross Sections, authored by Ralf Topper, Clinton D. Meyer, Marshall Haworth, Kevin C. Donegan, Hillary Banks,…
Hazards March 4, 2015 Land subsidence, a growing problem Deltares, an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface, hosted fifteen international subsidence experts to discuss subsidence problems worldwide at the annual meeting of UNESCO Land Subsidence working group. The video below features Gilles Erkens, subsidence expert…
Hazards March 13, 2013 The Science of Sinkholes This video, from the U.S. Geological Survey, explores the geological factors behind sinkholes and the related science. Narrated by Randall Orndorff, the Director of the USGS Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center.