Piceance North / Denver

Sand Wash Front Range SE Colorado

Ch 8
NW San Juan Eagle San Luis Basin South Park Julesburg Raton
Basin and Basin Middle Park Outcrops Area
Paradox basins Basin Upper Arkansas Basin Basin
Ma Era Period Epoch SJ volcanics Basin Basin
Tilt conglo
0 Plio/Pleis
Dotsero Volcano 1,4-5 my basalt
Gravel Mt
Young basalt flows
Ogallala
Rifting m erate

Neogene
Alamosa Independence Mt

Ogallala

Mineralization
Gravels at Divide
Dry Grouse Mt Basalt

Union Santa Fe
Grand Mesa volcs
CENOZOIC Goodenough
Flat Tops volcanics Regional uplift
Miocene Treasure Mt Browns Park Los Pinos Trump Wagon Tongue Martins Canyon

Ch 7
Troublesome North Park
Browns Park
20 San Juan Volcanics
20 Arikaree Spanish Peaks
Creede

N Atlantic Opens, America drifts W

Fluorite
Oligocene San Juan V
Conejos
Rabbit Ears vols. Mt Cumulus
Mt Richthofen
Brule
Healing Phase 2
Paleogene West Elk Volcanics
Gilbert Pe
Bishop Conglomerate
Tallahassee Ck Cgl Antero Castle Rock Conglomerate White River Grp.
Chadron
Devil’s Hole
Mt Sopris ak erosio
n surface
WM Tuff
White River
40
Telluride Conglomerate
40
Thirty nine mile Volc
Montezuma Florissant Larkspur Conglomerate
Breckenridge Castle Rock Rhyolite

Eocene
Lacolith
Uinta Washakie/Bridger Farisita Laramide Orogeny

Ch 6
Green River
Blanco Basin Huerfano-Cuchara

Laramide
Wasatch
San Jose Molina Ss Wasatch Coalmont D2 Sequence Dawson Arkose
Poison Cyn
60 60
Paleosol
Animas Middle Park
Nacimiento / Animas Ft Union Ft Union South Park Raton
Paleocene Windy Gap Mbr
Ojo Alamo Ss. Ohio Ck Cgl
Ohio Ck Cgl Reinecker Ridge Cgl.
Green Mt Cgl
D1 Sequence Denver Raton Cgl
Sub Ojo Alamo unconformity Sub Ohio Creek unconformity Sub Ohio Creek unconformity Sub Windy Gap unconformity Arapahoe Cgl.
Sub Arapahoe unconformity Laramie
Laramie Orogenic gravels
Williams Fork Lance Laramie Pando Porphyry Laramie Richards Ss Vermejo Fm.
Kirtland
Fox Hills Fox Hills Fox Hills Fox Hills Fox Hills Trinidad Ss.
Rollins Hygiene Mbr Sussex Ss
Fruitland Pictured Cliffs
Cozzette Trout Ck Hygiene Ss Shannon Ss Pierre Sh Pierre Sh
Lewis Sh Sego Corcoran Sego
Pierre Sh Pierre Sh
80 80 Pierre Sh
Castlegate
Cliff House Mancos Sh Kremmling Ss Rocky Ford Ss
MV Menefee Moropas Ss Mancos Sh Sharon Springs
Late
Pt Lookout
Mancos Sh Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara Smoky Hill

Sevier Orogeny
Smoky Hill
Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara Smoky Hill
Niobrara
Niobrara

Chapter 5
Colorado Grp
Cretaceous
Ft Hays Ls
Mancos Sh Codell
Ft Hays Ls
Codell
Ft Hays Ls
Codell

Colorado Grp
Codell
Frontier Ss Frontier Ss Benton Carlile Carlile Sh Carlile Sh
Cretaceous shales Frontier
Carlile Sh
Interior Seaway
Cretaceous

Greenhorn Greenhorn Ls Greenhorn Ls Greenhorn Ls

100 100
Dakota Grp Mowry Mowry Graneros Graneros Sh Graneros Sh
Dakota Grp Mowry Mowry Graneros Sh
Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Dakota Grp
Mowry Mowry Mowry
Burro Canyon Burro Canyon / Cedar Mt Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Dakota Grp
D Ss
Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Transgressive lag
s
Lytle
Lytle Pebbles
Lytle Pebbles Van Bibber Ss Horsetooth Mbr Huntsman Sh -- D Ss
Buckhorn Cgl Kassler Ss Ft Collins Mbr J Ss
Skull Creek Sh
Plainview Ss
* Skull Ck Sh
Plainview Ss
Kiowa Sh
Fall River Ss Chyenne Ss
Lytle Purgatoire
Glen Cairn Sh

120 Early Sub Dakota unconformity Sub Dakota unconformity Sub Dakota unconformity
120 Sub Dakota unconformity Sub Dakota unconformity Sub Dakota unconformity Sub Dakota unconformity

140 140
MESOZOIC

Lake T’oodochi

Brushy Basin Brushy Basin Brushy Basin

Morrison Westwater
Salt Wash Morrison Salt Wash Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison
Recapture Ck Salt Wash
TidwellSalt Wash (Ralston Ck Fm)
Late (Ralston Ck)
Junction Creek Ss Tidwell
J5 Unconformity J5 Unconformity J5 Unconformity

160 Wanakah
160
San Rafael Grp

Sub Dakota unconformity J5 unconformity

San Rafael Grp
San Rafael Grp

Pony Express Mbr Wanakah Curtis Curtis

Chapter 4
Entrada Ss Entrada Ss Entrada Ss Entrada/Sundance Garo Ss Sundance Entrada Ss Healing Phase 1
Middle Entrada Ss
Jurassic

Carmel Carmel Carmel

J2 unconformity
J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity

Laramide Uplift
180 Navajo Ss
Navajo Ss
Navajo/Nugget Ss
180

Uncompahgre and Laramide Uplifts

Glen Cyn Ss
Glen Cyn Grp

Early Kayenta
Kayenta Glen Canyon Ss
Glen Canyon Ss
Wingate Ss
Wingate Ss
200 200
J0 unconformity J0 unconformity J0 unconformity

220 Late 220

Triassic

Jelm Strain Mbr

Chinle Grp
Chinle Chinle Chinle Chinle
(Dolores) Gartra Mbr Gartra Mbr Gartra Mbr
Chugwater Dockum Grp
Shinarump Mbr Gartra Mbr Lykins
240 Middle
Tr3 unconformity
Tr3 unconformity Tr3 unconformity
240 (Chugwater
in Wyo)
Moenkopi Moenkopi Moenkopi Lykins
Early
Forelle Ls. Taloga
Ochoan

Ouachita-Marathon-Sonoma
Tr1 unconformity Tr1 unconformity Tr1 unconformity
State Bridge Forelle Ls
Forelle Ls
260 260

Chapter 3
Day Creek Dol
Glendo

PANGEA ASSEMBLES
Guadalupian White Rim Ss Minnekahta Ls

and Alleghenian
Permian

Kaibab Ls.
Phosphoria Phosphoria / Park City S Cyn Ck Mbr Opeche Sh Whitehorse Grp

Orogenies
Leonardian Saline beds Blaine Gypsum Blaine Gypsum
Maroon Ancestral Rockies
280 280
Weber Lyons Cedar Hills Ss Glorieta Ss Cedar Hills Ss
Weber Weber Stone Corral Stone Corral
Schoolhouse Crestone Satanka/Owl Cyn Yeso Orogeny
Cgl Wellington Fm Sumner Grp.
Organ Rock/Cutler Grp Tongue
Maroon Maroon
Wolfcampian Ingleside Wolfcamp Chase Grp
Gothic Jacque Mt Council Grove Grp
Maroon Minturn Wabaunsee
Ls Shawnee Wabaunsee
Minturn
300 300
Minturn Sangre de Lansing
Minturn Fountain Sangre de Cristo
Shawnee
Morgan
Eagle V Evap Cristo Lansing
Pennsylvanian

Kansas City
Frontrangia Uplift

Virgilian Round Valley

Rico Hermosa Eagle V Evap Kansas City
Missourian Honaker Trail Eagle V Evap Marmaton Marmaton
Desmoinesian Ismay Paradox Salt
Belden Belden Cherokee Sh Cherokee Sh
Atokan
Desert Ck
Akah Group Belden Sharpsdale Fountain Atoka Atoka
Carboniferous

Barker Ck Belden Glen Eyrie Morrow

Morrowan Pinkerton Trail Kerber Morrow Madera
Keyes Ss Keyes Ss
320 320
Molas
Mississippian

Chesterian Molas Molas Molas

Late
Molas

Pre Pennsylvanian unconformity Pre Pennsylvanian unconformity

Meramecian
340 340
Pre Pennsylvanian Unconformity Pre Pennsylvanian Unconformity Pre Pennsylvanian Unconformity
Pre Pennsylvanian Unconformity
Ste. Genevieve Ls
Osagean St. Louis Ls Beulah Ls regr
St. Louis Ls
Frontrangia Uplift
Early Leadville/ e ssio
Leadville Ls Leadville Ls Leadville Ls Salem Spergen Ls n
Leadville Ls Leadville Ls Hardscrabble Ls /
Kinderhookian Hardscrabble Warsaw Warsaw
Gilman Ss Osage Ls Leadville
Gilman Ss Osage Ls
Ouray Ls. Kaskaskia Sequence
360 360
Chaffee Grp

Coffee Pot Mbr

Chaffee Grp

Chaffee Grp

Dyer Dolomite Dyer Dolomite Dyer Dolomite Williams Canyon Kinderhook Ls Misener Ss
Elbert Chaffee Grp
Broken Rib Mbr Williams Canyon Kinderhook Ls
Ls Ls
McCracken Mbr.
Late Aneth Parting Ss Parting Fm Parting Ss Parting Ss ressio
n
transg
PALEOZOIC

Devonian

Uncompahgre Uplift
Uncompahgre Uplift

380 380
Frontrangia Uplift

Frontrangia Uplift
Gore Fault

Laurentia Passive Margin

Middle
Frontrangia Uplift

400 Pre Devonian unconformity Pre Devonian Unconformity

400 Pre Devonian unconformity Pre Devonian unconformity Pre Devonian unconformity
Early
Pre Devonian Unconformity Pre Devonian unconformity
Dallas Creek/Ridgeway Fault

420 420
Silurian

Gore Fault

Silurian and Ordovician fossils in kimberlite pipes

west of Virginia Dale

440 440

Chapter 2
regre
ssion
Late
Ordovician

Fremont Dol Fremont Dol Fremont Dol Viola Ls

Fremont Ls
Tippecanoe Sequence
460 460 Harding Ss Harding Ss Simpson Fm
Middle Harding Ss Harding Ss Harding Ss
transgression
Sub Harding unconformity Sub Harding unconformity Sub Harding unconformity Sub Harding unconformity
regre
Manitou Dol Arbuckle Grp ssion
Early Manitou Dol Manitou Dol Arbuckle Group Arbuckle-Manitou
480 480
Manitou Dol Manitou Dol
Manitou Dol

Dotsero Dotsero Dotsero Fm Dotsero Fm Sub Manitou unconformity

Sauk Sequence
Tintic, Ignacio Sawatch Sawatch Ss Reagan Ss
Lodore Lodore Sandstone Sawatch Quartzite Sawatch Reagan Ss. Sawatch
Quartzite
500 Tintic
500 trans
gress
ion
Cambrian

520 520
“great” unconformity “great” unconformity “great” unconformity “great” unconformity “great” unconformity “great” unconformity
“great” unconformity

540 540
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Tava Sandstone dikes

Uinta Mt Group

Owiyukuts Complex 2.7 BY

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