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Garden Of Gods Visitors Center

Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs --- The red Lyons Formation sandstone layers were uplifted vertically when the Rocky Mountains were uplifted. The 14,000 foot Pikes Peak in the background is a lone Precambrian granite intrusion.

granite tilting

Garden Of Gods Red Lyons

UPLIFTED: Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs --- Layers of Lyons Formation sandstone were tilted vertically when the Rocky Mountains were uplifted.

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I70RoadCut

UPLIFTED: Interstate-70 roadcut, west Denver --- A thick sequence of rock layers tilted upwards as the Rocky Mountains were uplifted.

Mesozoic sedimentary tilting

STEM Tuesdays

Educational, hands-on videos, produced by the NAD Department of Education in collaboration with GRI,…

Cambrian Explosion

A deeper look at the appearance of various phyla in the geologic column

Two Poster Presentations at the 10th Hutton Symposium on Granites and Related Rocks

Geomorphological Changes in Young Soils with Sparse Vegetation: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation

The Geoscience Research Institute partially funded a recently published article modeling erosion rates…

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