RIFLE,Colorado – Where the Colorado Rockies now stand was, 100 million years ago, a shallow sea that stretched from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, that ancient seaway has yielded to the awe ...

The Colorado Mountain Club’s Adventures in Learning series – Basics of Colorado Geology… and More! – will take place on Thursday and Saturday this week.During an informational lecture (to begin at 7 p ...

The Epic Journey of Geology 310's Crew, Summer 2008 Traipsing in the Blue Ridge. Scuttling about that incredible granite exposure at Richmond’s Belle Isle. A departmental trip to the Potomac River’s ...

If you’ve driven the mostly flat stretch of I-25 in Colorado from Pueblo to Trinidad, you’ve seen them: the Spanish Peaks, twin mountains that soar into the sky out of nowhere, reaching altitudes of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... GOLDEN —To call one of Golden’s museums an “undiscovered gem” is true, even it if is a wince-worthy pun. The Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum is free, ...

How did Colorado's current and ancient landscape form? How do rocks reveal those ancient landscapes? What type of life has inhabited Colorado over geologic time? In what ways has the state's geologic ...

We once drove through Walsenburg with a geologist named Brian Penn, passing gas stations and discount stores and fast food chains when suddenly Penn veered his Ford Ranger to the side of the road and ...

History of faulting in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah / Wallace R. Hansen -- Seismic and borehole evidence for important pre-Laramide faulting along the axial arch in northwest ...

Colorado College geology professor Christine Siddoway made the discovery of her career from the saddle of a road bike. It was during a climb through North Cheyenne Cañon Park that Siddoway, 52, ...

A team has collected dozens of samples from across southeastern Colorado, and their results could help to answer an enduring mystery: What made Colorado's High Plains so high? If you've driven the ...