Piceance Basin, Upper Arkansas, Denver-

Neogene Period
NW San Juan, Sand Wash Eagle North\Middle South Park Front Range Raton Southeast Geologic
Epoch

Era
Ma San Juan San Luis Julesburg
Paradox Basins Basin Basin Park Basins Basin Outcrops Basin Colorado History
Volcanics Valleys Basin
0 Dotsero Volcano 1, 4-5 my basalt Raton basalt flows Mesa de Maya basalt flows
Tilt conglomerate
Pleistocene/ Alamosa
Gravel Mtn Independence Mtn
Ogallala

Chapter 7 8
Rifting
Pliocene Grand Mesa Volcanics Breeze Mtn (Yampa Stocks) Dry Gravels at Divide Ogallala
Grouse Mtn Basalt Regional uplift
Flat Tops Volcanics Union
Santa Fe
Miocene Goodenough Treasure Mtn Browns Park Los Pinos
Troublesome North Park
Trump Wagon Tongue Martins Canyon
Browns Park
CENOZOIC

20 San Juan Volcanics

Cedar Mtn
Arikaree Spanish Peaks
Creede San Juan Volcanics
Mt Cumulus
Healing Phase 2
Conejos
Oligocene Bishop Cgl Pitch- Mt Richthofen Central Colo- Tallahassee Brule
West Elk Volcanics Rabbit Ears Volcanics
Gilbert Pea
Pinnacle rado Volcanics Creek Cgl Antero Castle Rock Cgl White River Group
Chadron Devils Hole
k erosion su Two Buttes
Paleogene

rface Castle Rock Rhyolite

Mt Sopris White River
Telluride Cgl Wall Mountain Tuff Echo Park
40
39 Mile Volcanics Florissant
(Wall Mtn Tuff ) Montezuma Larkspur Cgl
Breckenridge
Eocene Uinta Washakie/Bridger Laccolith
Farisita
Blanco Basin Laramide Orogeny
Huerfano-Cuchara
Green River Coalmont

Ch 6
Wasatch Poison Canyon

Laramide
San Jose D2 Sequence Orogenic
Wasatch Dawson Arkose

Laramide
Molina Animas gravels
Middle Park Paleosol
Raton

Laramide
60 Nacimiento/Animas Ft Union Ft Union South Park

Laramide
Paleocene Green Mtn Cgl sub-Arapahoe
Ojo Alamo Ohio Ck Cgl Moffat Cgl Windy Gap D1 Sequence unconformity Raton Cgl
Reinecker Ridge Cgl Denver Laramie
sub-Ojo Alamo unconformity sub-Ohio Ck unconformity sub-Moffat unconformity Arapahoe Cgl
sub-Windy Gap unconformity
Williams Fork Laramie Pando Porphyry Laramie Vermejo
Kirtland Lance/Williams Fork
Lion Cyn Fox Hills Laramie Richard Fox Hills Richard
Fruitland Lion Cyn Fox Hills Fox Hills Trinidad
Rollins Iles Fox Hills Larimer Larimer
Cozzette Twentymile Lewis
Pierre Pierre Rocky Ridge Pierre Rocky Ridge
Lewis
Pictured Cliffs
Sego
Corcoran Castlegate Trout Ck Kremmling Hygiene Terry Terry Pierre Pierre
80
Cliff House
Lujane Pt
Meeker Tow Ck Mancos Apache Creek
Shale Hygiene Shale Hygiene
MV Menefee Sharon Spr Mancos Pierre Sharon Springs Sharon Springs
Point Lookout Morapas
Upper Mancos
Prairie Cyn
Smoky Hill Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara Niobrara Smoky Hill Niobrara Smoky Hill Niobrara Smoky Hill
Niobrara Ft Hays Juana Lopez Ft Hays Juana Lopez Ft Hays Juana Lopez
Ft Hays Juana Lopez

Sevier Orogeny
Montezuma
Mancos Shale Juana Lopez Cretaceous

Colorado Grp

Colorado Grp
Blue Hill Frontier Benton Benton Codell
Carlile Codell
Carlile
Carlile Carlile Codell Codell
Carlile

Chapter 5
Bridge Ck Cretaceous Benton Greenhorn Greenhorn
Greenhorn Greenhorn Greenhorn Interior Seaway
Graneros Mowry Mowry Mowry shales
Cretaceous

Graneros Graneros
Graneros Graneros Graneros
Dakota Grp Mowry
100
Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Mowry Mowry Mowry
Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Horsetooth/J Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Dakota Grp Transgressive lag
Lytle pebbles Van Bibber s
Dakota Kassler/Ft. Collins Dakota J Dakota J Dakota J
Skull Ck Skull Ck Skull Ck
Grp Skull Creek Grp Grp Grp

N Atlantic Opens, America drifts W

Plainview Plainview Plainview
Plainview Lytle Lytle Lytle
Burro Canyon Burro Canyon Lytle
(Cedar Mountain in UT)

120
Lower sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity
Basal conglomerates (e.g., Buckhorn)

sub-Dakota unconformity sub-Dakota unconformity

140
MESOZOIC

Brushy Basin Brushy Basin

Salt Wash Brushy Basin
Tidwell Morrison Bluff Morrison Salt Wash
Tidwell Morrison Salt Wash Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison Morrison
Westwater Recapture Ck Junction Ck Junction Ck
Upper J5 unconformity J5 unconformity J5 unconformity J5 unconformity J5 unconformity
Ralston Creek Ralston Creek Ralston Creek
J5 unconformity
J5 unconformity J5 unconformity J5 unconformity J5 unconformity
160 Wanakah Wanakah
San Rafael Grp

San Rafael Grp

San Rafael Grp

Curtis Curtis
Pony Express (Todilto in UT) Pony Express
Jurassic

Entrada Entrada Entrada Entrada Entrada/Sundance Garo Sundance Entrada Entrada

Middle
Page Carmel Carmel Carmel
J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity J2 unconformity Healing Phase 1
Navajo
180
Glen Canyon Grp

Navajo

Chapter 4
Glen Cyn Grp

Glen Cyn Grp

Navajo/Nugget
Lower Kayenta Kayenta Glen Cyn
Glen Cyn
Wingate Wingate
200
J0 unconformity J0 unconformity J0 unconformity J0 unconformity
Triassic

220 Upper Chinle Chinle Chinle Chinle Chinle Chinle

Shinarump Gartra Gartra Gartra

240 Tr3 unconformity Tr3 unconformity Tr3 unconformity Tr3 unconformity

Middle Jelm Jelm Jelm
Moenkopi Moenkopi Moenkopi Chugwater
Lower Lykins Lykins Taloga
Tr1 unconformity Tr1 unconformity Tr1 unconformity
Ochoan State State Bridge Forelle Forelle Forelle
260 Bridge Day Creek

Ouachita-Marathon-Sonoma
Glendo
Guadalupian
White Rim Ss Lykins Falcon

PANGEA ASSEMBLES
Minnekahta
Whitehorse Grp Ancestral Rockies
Permian

Kaibab Ls
Opeche Orogeny

and Alleghenian
Phosphoria Park City/S Canyon Creek S Canyon Ck
Blaine Blaine Blaine
Leonardian

Orogenies
Organ Rock Cedar Hills Cedar Hills
Lyons Glorieta
280
Stone Corral Stone Corral
Sumner
Ancestral Rockies

Ancestral Rockies

Ancestral Rockies
Schoolhouse Satanka/Owl Cyn Wellington Yeso

Chapter 3
Ancestral Rockies
Chase
Uncompahgre

Uncompahgre

Weber Ingleside Sangre

Wolfcampian Weber Wolfcamp
de Council Grove
Weber Wabaunsee Cristo Wabaunsee
Maroon Shawnee Crestone
Hermosa Maroon Maroon Cgl
Shawnee
Fountain Lansing Lansing
300 Elephant Canyon Maroon Eagle Valley Evaporite Jacque Mtn Gothic Jacque Mtn Kansas City Kansas City
Virgilian
Pennsylvanian

Minturn Fountain Marmaton Madera Marmaton

Missourian Minturn Morgan Minturn Minturn Sharpsdale
Eagle Valley
Desmoinesian Paradox salts Eagle Valley Evap Round Valley
Evaporite Belden
Cherokee Cherokee
Atokan Atoka Atoka
Belden Belden Kerber
Glen Eyrie
Lower Hermosa Belden Morrow Morrow
Morrowan Keyes Keyes
Carboniferous

320
Molas
Chesterian Molas Molas Molas Molas

pre-Pennsylvanian pre-Pennsylvanian pre-Pennsylvanian

Mississippian

Meramecian pre-Pennsylvanian unconformity unconformity unconformity

pre-Pennsylvanian pre-Pennsylvanian pre-Pennsylvanian
340 unconformity
pre-Pennsylvanian
unconformity unconformity unconformity
unconformity
Osagean Beulah Ste. Genevieve
regr
St. Louis St. Louis e ssio
Leadville n
Leadville Leadville Leadville Leadville Spergen Hardscrabble/
Kinder- Leadville Spergen
Warsaw Leadville Warsaw
hookian Gilman Gilman
Osage Osage Kaskaskia Sequence
Williams Cyn
360 Pre Devonian unconformity
Pinyon Pk Ouray Kinderhook Williams
Chaffee
Chaffee

Dyer Dyer Dyer

Chaffee

Chaffee Grp Kinderhook

Grp
Grp

Grp

Misener Canyon n
Parting Parting Parting ressio
Elbert transg
Upper McCracken
Ignacio

380
Devonian
PALEOZOIC

Aneth
Gore Fault

Laurentia Passive Margin

Middle

pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian pre-Devonian

400 unconformity unconformity unconformity unconformity unconformity unconformity unconformity unconformity unconformity

Lower
Dallas Creek/Ridgway Fault

Chapter 2
420 Pridoli
Silurian

Gore Fault

Ludlow
Wentlock

Llandovery Silurian and Ordovician

440 fossils in
kimberlite pipes
west of Virginia Dale regress
io n
Upper
Fremont Fremont Fremont Viola
Ordovician

Fremont Ls Tippecanoe Sequence

460
Harding Harding Harding Simpson
Middle Harding Harding Ss
transgr
ession

sub-Harding unconformity sub-Harding unconformity sub-Harding unconformity sub-Harding unconformity sub-Harding unconformity
regre
Manitou ssion
Lower Manitou Manitou Manitou Manitou Manitou/Arbuckle Manitou/
480 ?Cambro-Ordovician
Arbuckle Arbuckle
strata removed by
Sauk Sequence
pre-Devonian Dotsero Dotsero Dotsero sub-Manitou
unconformity? unconformity
Furongian Sawatch Sawatch/
Lodore Lodore Sawatch Sawatch Reagan Sawatch/Reagan
Sawatch Sawatch/Reagan gress
io n
Tintic trans
500
Series 3
Cambrian

Series 2
520
The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great The Great
Terren-
Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity Unconformity
euvian

540
Uinta Mt Grp 780-720 Ma
Tava 800-680 Ma
Proterozoic Uncompahgre Basement Rocks, mainly 1.1–1.8 Ga
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1.7-1.4 Ga Owiyukuts Complex Ch 1
2.4 Ga