BALANCED ROCK, near head of Fruita Canyon.Spire and rock are Wingate Sandstone resting onred Chinle Formation; thin caprock is protectivelayer of resistant Kayenta Formation. (Frontispiece)
The Geologic Story of
COLORADO
NATIONAL MONUMENT
By S. W. Lohman
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1508
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
JAMES G. WATT, Secretary
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Doyle G. Frederick, Acting Director
- Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
- Lohman, Stanley William, 1907-
- The geologic story of Colorado National Monument.
- (Geological Survey Bulletin 1508)
- Bibliography: p. 131
- Includes index.
- 1. Geology—Colorado National Monument.
- 2. Colorado National Monument.
- I. Title. II. Series: United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1508
- QE75.B9 no. 1508 [QE92.C6] 557.3s [557.88′17]
- 80-607952
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402
VII
Contents
- Page
- Preface XI
- History of the Monument 1
- Early history of the region 5
- Prehistoric people 5
- Late arrivals 10
- Early settlement 10
- The Brown-Stanton river expedition 11
- Kodel’s gold mine 12
- Recent cave dweller 13
- Artesian wells 14
- Geographic setting 16
- The geologic story begins 17
- Ancient rocks and events 24
- A great gap in the rock record 26
- The age of reptiles 27
- Early landscape 28
- Ancient sand dunes 29
- The rains came 32
- Another gap in the rock reco ...
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