Through the generations : geologic and anthropogenic field excursions in the Rocky Mountains from modern to ancient / edited by Lisa A. Morgan and Steven L. Quane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Lisa A.

Quane, Steven L.

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Field guide (Geological Society of America) ; 18.

Field guide ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Rocky Mountains--Guidebooks.

Geology.

Orogeny--Rocky Mountains--Guidebooks.

Orogeny.

Geology, Structural--Rocky Mountains--Guidebooks.

Geology, Structural.

Rocky Mountains--Guidebooks.

Rocky Mountains.

Rocky Mountains Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 239 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The tradition of Rocky Mountain geology remains strong at all scales, spatially and temporally. Spatially, this volume discusses theories of continental mountain building events in tandem with microscopic observations and parts per billion trace element concentrations. Temporally, the volume covers geologic history from the Precambrian to modern issues of climate change and energy, groundwater contamination, geologic hazards, and landscape evolution.

Contents:

1. Lewis and Clark Line, Montana : tectonic evolution of a crustal-scale flower structure in the Rocky Mountains / James W. Sears, Kathryn MacDonald, and Jeffery Lonn

2. Late Cenozoic evolution of the Colorado Rockies : evidence for Neogene uplift and drainage integration / Andres Aslan [and others]

3. Beyond Colorado's Front Range : a new look at Laramide basin subsidence, sedimentation, and deformation in north-central Colorado / James C. Cole [and others]

4. Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs : Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentation and tectonics / Marcus R. Ross [and others]

5. Chalk Creek Valley : Colorado's natural debris-flow laboratory / Jeffrey A. Coe [and others]

6. To reactivate or not to reactivate : nature and varied behavior of structural inheritance in the Proterozoic basement of the eastern Colorado Mineral Belt over 1.7 billion years of earth history / Jonathan Saul Caine, John Ridley, and Zachary R. Wessel

7. Estimating natural background groundwater chemistry, Questa molybdenum mine, New Mexico / Philip L. Verplanck [and others]

8. Alternative sequence stratigraphic model for the Desert Member to Castlegate Sandstone interval, Book Cliffs, eastern Utah : implications for the high-resolution correlation of falling stage nonmarine, marginal-marine, and marine strata / Simon A.J. Pattison

9. A geologic and anthropogenic journey from the Precambrian to the new energy economy through the San Juan volcanic field / Douglas B. Yager, Alison Burchell, and Raymond H. Johnson

10. Boulder Creek : a stream ecosystem in an urban landscape (abstract) / Sheil F. Murphy [and others].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Through the generations.

ISBN:

9780813700182

0813700183

OCLC:

818923168

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.