Setting the Colorado Stage


We live in a period of very low seismic activity in Colorado. Only the mildest of earthquakes have been recorded during the forty years I have lived here, and just one that I actually felt and recognized. The remaining glacial cores may be disappearing under the heat of global warming. No one knows what will happen to this landscape over the next milions of years, but it's a great natural setting right now.

For more about the geologic history of Colorado, link to the exciting Ancient Denvers web page from the Denver Museum of Natural History. The Museum site is listed on my Top Five web sites.

You can link to another of my favorite sites at Colorado: The Colorado Plateau State.

For more in depth articles on the science of geology, just search for "geology" within Suite101.com and you will get a list of some excellent topics. I especially enjoyed the comparisons of Geologic Time, Relative Time, and Absolute Time in Geoff Habiger's topic on Everyday Geology.

Also, see a book titled The Southern Rockies by Audrey D. Benedict, Sierra Club Books, 1991.

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