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Feeney\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis tenth book in the Geology Underfoot Series offers an inside view of the uniquely enigmatic landscape west of the Continental Divide in Colorado. In this arid region where mountain snowmelt drains through deep canyons en route to the Gulf of California, the crumpled gneisses of the Colorado Rockies meet the famous red rocks of the Colorado Plateau.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNothing is simple here, with rich metal ores filling fractures of supervolcanoes, small mammals flourishing in a world of giant dinosaurs, and rivers shifting course with each new uplift or eruption of lava.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin a team of geologists as they use clear prose, concise illustrations, and dramatic full-color photographs to tell the deep-time stories of 26 geologic sites, including four giants of the national park system: Mesa Verde National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado National Monument, and Dinosaur National Monument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFossil collectors, rockhounds, hot potters, coal miners, and adventurers of all ages can use this guide to better understand the geology underfoot throughout Colorado's beautiful Western Slope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jack Shroder\u003cspan\u003e has more than half a century of experience mapping landforms and studying mass-movement processes worldwide, along with big glaciers. He concentrated on the Himalaya as well as the Rocky Mountains, where he now resides with his wife, Suzie Nye, in Crested Butte, Colorado. With 62 books written or edited by him, along with over 170 scientific articles in journals, books, and encyclopedias, and 69 consulting geology reports, Shroder spent his career as a college professor providing the public with the best available science about Earth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmy Ellwein, a geomorphologist, works primarily on the Colorado Plateau. Her first and favorite geology project in Colorado was in the Elk Range with her late husband, Tim Wawrzyniec. 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He strives to pass along the information and excitement of geology and paleontology to students and others and is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarol Engelmann, a former NSF Einstein Fellow, retired from her position as the UNO Hubbard STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) Learning Instructor in 2018. At UNO, Carol taught future and current educators at the Glacier Creek Preserve in STEM topics, including environmental studies, geology, geography, and biology. Carol also serves as a STEM consultant and evaluator of national STEM programs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBeth Waldron Yuhas has an educational background in art, Spanish, and geology, with a Master's degree focused on geochemistry from the University of New Mexico. During her time as a geologist, she turned to art as a fun and relaxing hobby, it is slowly took over everything. Beth works as a full-time artist in Corrales, New Mexico, doing a combination of painting, illustration, and photography. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Chelsea M. Feeney was raised at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in central Virginia and received a BS in geosciences from Virginia Tech. Her geologic pursuits led her to the Northwest where she earned her MS in geology from the University of Montana and published her first map through the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology.  She has been producing geologic maps and figures for Mountain Press Publishing Company and GSA since 2009 and owns her own custom cartography business (www.cmcfeeney.com). 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The epic, 1,800-million-year geologic story behind this amazing landscape is even more awe inspiring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGeology Underfoot along Colorado's Front Range\u003c\/i\u003e, the most recent addition to the Geology Underfoot series, authors (and geoscientists) Lon Abbott and Terri Cook narrate the Front Range's tale, from its humble beginnings as a flat, nondescript seafloor through several ghostly incarnations as a towering mountain range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's 21 chapters, or vignettes, lead you to easily accessible stops along the Front Range's highways and byways, where you'll meet the apatosaur and other dinosaurs who roamed the floodplains and beaches that once covered the Front Range; look for diamonds in rare, out-of-the-way volcanic pipes; learn how America's mountain, Pikes Peak, developed from molten magma miles below the surface only to become an important visual landmark for early Great Plains travelers; and walk the Gangplank, a singularly important plateau for both nineteenth-century westward expansion and our understanding of the Front Range's most recent exhumation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA healthy dose of full-color illustrations and photos demystify the concepts put forth in the authors' elegant, insightful prose. With \u003ci\u003eGeology Underfoot along Colorado's Front Range\u003c\/i\u003e in hand, you'll feel like you're traveling through time as you explore the Front Range's hidden geologic treasures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Students of the geology, minerals and fossils of this very popular region, which is also visited frequently by tourists, will find this book a useful and informative reference.\" \u003cspan\u003e—Bob Jones, \u003cem\u003eRock and Gem Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLon Abbott is a geology faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder whose recent research has focused on the cutting of the Grand Canyon and the formation of the Colorado Rockies. 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Donahue and Marli B. Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 50 well-chosen sites\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003emany on every geologist's bucket list\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003espan Colorado's geologic history from 1.7-billion-year-old rocks of the Black Canyon to the constantly shifting landscape of the Great Sand Dunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe asteroid-produced iridium-enriched layer that marks the end of the dinosaurs is here, as are insects and petrified wood exquisitely preserved at Florissant Fossil Beds, the pure white marble used in the Lincoln Memorial, mysterious Unaweep Canyon that lacks a river, and colorful mounds of silicious sinter at Pagosa Springs. The Great Unconformity, a famous geologic feature tucked away in a few remote locations in other western states, pops up at seven of the featured sites. 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