Earth history along Colorado's Front Range: Salvaging geologic data in the suburbs and sharing it with the citizens

GSA Today

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4-10

  Raynolds, Robert G ^a   Johnson, Kirk R ^a   Ellis, Beth ^a   Dechesne, Marieke ^a   Miller, Ian M ^a  

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; EARTH SCIENCE; HISTORICAL RECORD; OROGENY; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

COLORADO; DENVER BASIN; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38349181773     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GSAT01712A.1     Document Type: Article

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