The Alamosa Formation is a geologic formation in Colorado.[1] It preserves fossils. The formation was deposited by Lake Alamosa, a paleolake that existed from the Pliocene to the middle Pleistocene.[2]
^Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^Machette, Michael N.; Marchetti, David W.; Thompson, Ren A. (2007). "Chapter G: Ancient Lake Alamosa and the Pliocene to middle Pleistocene evolution of the Rio Grande". Rocky Mountain Section Friends of the Pleistocene Guidebook(PDF). Open-file report ; 2007-1193. Reston, Virginia: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. pp. 157–167.
The AlamosaFormation is a geologic formation in Colorado. It preserves fossils. The formation was deposited by Lake Alamosa, a paleolake that existed...
leaving only the San Luis Closed Basin as a remnant. The AlamosaFormation is a rock formation left by the lake. Groundwater resources are contained trapped...
the San Juan volcanic field to the west; later strata comprise the Alamosaformation, alternating layers of sand, gravel, and clay. The relatively impermeable...
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(Fort Lupton, Colorado) C Company (Grand Junction, Colorado) D Company (Alamosa, Colorado) I Company, 186th Brigade Support Battalion (attached) (Windsor...
is known for its very large red sandstone outcrops. Many of these rock formations within the park have names, from the mushroom-shaped Seat of Pluto to...
Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations. This is an area of desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinyon...
Colorado since the county was created on February 9, 1887. Alamosa has been the seat of Alamosa County, Colorado since the county was created on March 8...
but one pastor, Rev. Audred Spriensma and a number of CRC families from Alamosa, Colorado joined the Protestant Reformed Church in 1993. In 2004 a former...
Luis Basin until a spillover event 440,000 years ago that drained Lake Alamosa, forming the Rio Grande Gorge, and fully reintegrated the San Luis Basin...
50 mi). These basins may contain smaller units within them, such as the Alamosa basin within the San Luis, which is bounded by the San Juan and Tusas mountains...
the San Luis Valley, lie along the Rio Grande Rift, a major geological formation of the Rocky Mountains, and its branches. The Western Slope of Colorado...
His companion, the young Rufus Cable, awestruck by the impressive rock formations, exclaimed, "Beer garden! Why, it is a fit place for the Gods to assemble...
Park The Morrison Formation was formed during the Cretaceous and Jurassic Period 100-150 million years ago. The Morrison Formation contains some of the...
began to lay the first rails of the San Juan Extension going south from Alamosa, Colorado, toward Antonito, Colorado, arriving in March of that year. The...
1912, Jackson County, Moffat County, and Crowley County had been created. Alamosa was created in 1913, and in 2001, Broomfield was consolidated as a city...
Ojo Caliente near present-day Monticello, New Mexico along the Cañada Alamosa, between the Cuchillo Negro Creek and the Animas Creek, controlled the...
been carbon dated to approximately 1,900 years ago. red rock formation red rock formations rock with lichen Columbine trail Cathy Johnson trail marker...
state park of Colorado, United States, known for dramatic red sandstone formations. Located in Douglas County 20 miles (32 km) south of Denver, Colorado...
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