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Molas Pass, [1] elevation 10,910 feet (3,330 meters), is a high mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains of western Colorado in the United States. The pass is in the San Juan National Forest . It is traversed by the Million Dollar Highway , U.S. Highway 550 south of Silverton , which is part of the San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway .
Molas Pass: 10,910 feet 3,325 m 7.0% Asphalt ... History Colorado; United States Geological Survey. USGS Geographic Names Information System query; Colorado elevations;
The Molas Formation is a geologic formation that is found in the Four Corners region of the United States. Its age is poorly constrained but is thought to be Namurian (late Mississippian to middle Pennsylvanian ).
The Colorado Province took shape as a mobile belt—an area of thinner, orogeny related continental crust lacking the deep "keel" of rock, which stabilized the neighboring Wyoming Craton and other cratons like it. Throughout Colorado's geologic history, rocks have often been deformed, metamorphosed and overprinted, obscuring the ancient record.
The Uncompahgre Formation is a sequence of quartzite and black phyllite some 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) in thickness. It is exposed in a curving belt from the northwestern to northeastern Needle Mountains with outliers near Ouray and Rico, Colorado.
The Stony Pass Trailhead is on a four-wheel drive road and has limited parking. To facilitate transportation, there are other nearby trailheads that can be used to exit the Weminuche Wilderness. These include the Elk Park train stop, the Molas Pass Trailhead, the Highland Mary Trailhead, and the Silverton Trailhead just outside the town of ...
The San Juan volcanic field is part of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado.It consists mainly of volcanic rocks that form the largest remnant of a major composite volcanic field that covered most of the southern Rocky Mountains in the Middle Tertiary geologic time. [1]
Snowdon Peak is a 13,077-foot-elevation (3,986-meter) mountain summit located in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. [3] It is situated seven miles south of the community of Silverton, in the Weminuche Wilderness, on land managed by San Juan National Forest.