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The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long, [2] curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield County and then to near Meeker in Rio Blanco County. [3]
Dinosaur Ridge is a segment of the Dakota Hogback in the Morrison Fossil Area National Natural Landmark located in Jefferson County, Colorado, near the town of Morrison and just west of Denver. In 1876, fossil excavation began at Dinosaur Ridge under the direction of Yale paleontologist Dr. Othniel Charles Marsh. [1]
In geology and geomorphology, a hogback or hog's back is a long, narrow ridge or a series of hills with a narrow crest and steep slopes of nearly equal inclination on both flanks. Typically, the term is restricted to a ridge created by the differential erosion of outcropping , steeply dipping (greater than 30–40°), homoclinal , and typically ...
The Dakota Hogback is a long hogback ridge at the eastern fringe of the Rocky Mountains that extends north-south from southern Wyoming through Colorado and into northern New Mexico in the United States. The ridge is prominently visible as the first line of foothills along the edge of the Great Plains. It is generally faulted along its western ...
Roxborough State Park is a designated Colorado Natural Area and National Natural Landmark for its 300-million-year-old red sandstone Fountain Formations that tilt at a 60-degree angle. The park includes great examples of exposed Precambrian to Late Mesozoic hogback, monolithic and spire formations from the Permian, Pennsylvanian and Cretaceous age
Located near the town of Morrison, off U.S. Route 285, [2] [1] the site is located in the southern Rocky Mountains foothills, at about 6,200 feet (1,900 m) elevation, where uplifted Dakota Sandstone formed a steep hogback. The rockshelter is sheltered by distinctive 60 foot "red rock" formation, caused by an uplift of Fountain Formation rock.
Location of La Plata County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in La Plata County, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
Antonito, CO and Chama, NM: Conejos, CO, Archuleta, CO, and Rio Arriba, NM: Longest & most complete representation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century railroading. 8: Denver Civic Center: Denver Civic Center: October 16, 2012