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CANYON: Rocks Reveal How the Earth Was Formed
"Geologists look at the landscape and see things others don’t,"
Gregg Campbell says, "for us, one million years is a short time."
Gregg stands on a bluff in northern Colorado, where Highway 287 nearly meets
Wyoming. Across the highway lies a mountain in red layers—rock and pebbly
soil, sandwiched with clay, like layers of a frosted cake. "Part of our
ancestral Rockies," he points out, a mountain of sedimentary rocks, where
pressure and time has glued all together.
Ask Gregg to survey a canyon view and, in his imagination, all growing things
are stripped away. That’s because rocks tell geologists how the earth was
formed. Out here, in the arid Colorado rock-strewn land, the birth of the planet
is revealed. "You’ll have these rocks on the East Coast," Gregg
says, "but you won’t see them. Everything is covered in vegetation
because of the climate."
 The
rest of this story is now contained in "Colorado
Outdoor Lover's Guide" by
Front Range Living and Fulcrum Publishing. It can be purchased through www.fulcrum-books.com
or at bookstores, such as: www.tatteredcover.com,
www.barnesandnoble.com,
www.borders.com
or www.amazon.com.
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