Authors: J.T. Stark, J.H. Johnson, C.H. Behre, Jr., W.E. Powers, A.L. Howland, Don B. Gould, et al.
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South Park in central Colorado is a basin of some 900 square miles with a relatively level floor, depressed in comparison with the enclosing hills to the south and even more so as compared with the Mosquito and Front Ranges that border it elsewhere. The chief purpose of this study, which comprised three field seasons and a party ranging from 3 to 15 persons each season, was to determine the origin of the Park. Broadly speaking this proved to be partly a matter of tectonics but largely one of erosion and deposition in Tertiary and Quaternary times. Details of structure, igneous history and petrology, Tertiary and earlier stratigraphy, and Pliocene and Pleistocene development are significant by-products of the investigation.
Published: 1/10/1949
Pages: 188
Product Category: Memoirs