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 ...

Geology studies students gain a deep understanding and appreciation of the Earth: its resources, structure, processes and history. Our faculty and staff research minerals, sediments, rocks, fossils, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Helicopters will be flying low over northern Colorado during the next several months to conduct geological imaging, according to a news release from the U.S. Geological Survey. Beginning in August, ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Thousands of people attend concerts for their favorite artists every year at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the “only naturally-occurring, acoustically perfect amphitheater in the world,” ...