Research Catalog

Title

Guide to the geology of Colorado. Edited by Robert J. Weimer and John D. Haun.

Author

Geological Society of America

Publication

[New York] 1960.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Weimer, Robert J.
• Haun, John D.
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Description

vi, 310 p. illus., maps.; 29 cm.

Subject

Geology > Colorado

Note

• "Prepared for the 1960 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America and associated societies, and the 1961 annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists."
• "A companion volume, published by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, entitled Road logs of Colorado, supplements this book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Title page and photograph of Sopris Mountain -- Foreward -- Field trip committees -- Table of contents -- Index to advertisers -- General papers -- Major geologic features of Colorado / Bruce F. Curtis -- Airy-Heiskanen anomaly map of Colorado / M.N. Qureshy -- Precambrian geology of Front Range -- Cambrian and Ordovician history of Colorado / Robert R. Berg -- Devonian and Mississippian systems in Colorado / David P. Rothrock -- Outline of Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of Colorado / William Wyman Mallory -- Pennsylvanian and Permian strata in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado / E.K. Maughan and R.F. Wilson -- Lower Mesozoic rocks in Colorado / Steven S. Oriel and Lawrence C. Craig -- Cretaceous stratigraphy of Colorado / John D. Haiun and Robert J. Weimer -- Cenozoic geology -- Field trips -- A-1: Geology of west-central Colorado / S.W. Lohman -- Mancos shale and Mesaverde group of Palisade area / Robert G. Young -- Colorado National Monument and adjacent areas / S.W. Lohman -- A-2: Geology of south-central Colorado / John Chronic -- Brief description of the igneous bodies of the Raton Mesa region, south-central Colorado / Ross B. Johnson -- Permo-Pennsylvanian stratigraphy in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado / Dudley W. Bolyard -- Great sand dunes of Colorado / George P. Merk -- Geology near Orient Mine, Sangre de Cristo Mountains / Linus R. Litsey -- A-3: Tectonics and economic geology of central Colorado / Robert M. Hutchinson -- Kokomo mining district / A.H. Koschmann -- Tectonic relatioships of central Colorado / Peter C. Badgley -- Structure and petrology of north end of Pikes Peak batholith, Colorado / Robert M. Hutchinson -- Precambrian rocks and structure of thePlatte Canyon and Kassler quadrangles, Colorado / Warren L. Peterson and Glenn R. Scott -- Gravity map of the Hartsel area, South Park, Colorado / P.A. Rodgers -- Cripple Creek district / A.H. Koschmann -- Geologic formations and structure of Colorado Springs Area, Colorado / L. Trowbridge Grose -- Placers of Summit and Park counties, Colorado / Ben Parker, Jr -- B-1: Quaternary geology of the Front Range and adjacent plains / W.C. Bradley and Glenn R. Scott -- First day -- Pleistocene geology of the eastern slope of Rocky Mountain National park, Colorado Front Range / Gerald M. Richmond and W.C. Bradley -- Second day -- Surficial geology of the Kassler and Littleton quadrangles near Denver, Colorado / Glenn R. Scott -- Quaternary sequence east of the Front Range near Denver, Colorado / Glenn R. Scott -- B-2: Geology of the northern Front Range -- Laramie Range, Colorado and Wyoming / D.W. Boyd -- Summary of Cenozoic history, southern Laramie Range, Wyoming and Colorado / Fred E. Moore -- Laramie Anorthosite / M.A. Klugman -- Cross-lamination and local deformation in the Casper sandstone, southeast Wyoming / S.H. Knight -- Dakota group in northern Front Range area / Karl M. Waage and Don L. Eicher -- B-3: Field trip to Climax, Colorado (no road log) -- Geology of the Climax Molybdenite deposit: a progress report / Steward R. Wallace, Richard C. Baker, David C. Johnson, and W. Bruce MacKenzie -- C-1: Stratigraphy of Colorado Springs-Canyon City area / H.W. Oborne and W.A. Fischer -- C-2: Engineering geology-districution system of the Colorado-Big Thompson project / Mansfield Merriman -- C-3: Precambrian geology of the Idaho Springs-Central City area, Colorado / D.M. Sheridan, P.K. Sims, and J.E. Harrison -- Geology of the Central City-Idaho Springs area, Front Range, Colorado / P.K. Sims -- C-4: Fossil vertebrates and sedimentary rocks of the Front Range foothills, Colorado / G. Edward Lewis -- C-5: Geology of the Front Range foothills, Boulder-Lyons-Loveland area, Colorado / W.O. Thompson and T.R. alker -- Geology of Mountain Front west of Denver / John D. Haun.

LCCN

^^^60015415^

OCLC

• 1854381
• SCSB-9937814

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library