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Table of Contents - 2004 Field Guide

Field Trips in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA

Edited by Eric P. Nelson and Eric A. Erslev, 2004

Preface		v
1.	Navajo sand sea of near-equatorial Pangea: Tropical westerlies, slumps, and giant stromatolites David Loope, Len Eisenberg, and Erik Waiss	1
2.	Strike-slip tectonics and thermochronology of northern New Mexico: A field guide to critical exposures in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Eric A. Erslev, Seth D. Fankhauser, Matthew T. Heizler, Robert E. Sanders, and Steven M. Cather	15
3.	Structural implications of underground coal mining in the Mesaverde Group in the Somerset Coal Field, Delta and Gunnison Counties, Colorado Christopher J. Carroll, Eric Robeck, Greg Hunt, and Wendell Koontz	41
4.	West Bijou Site Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Denver Basin, Colorado Richard S. Barclay and Kirk R. Johnson	59
5.	Buried Paleo-Indian landscapes and sites on the High Plains of northwestern Kansas Rolfe D. Mandel, Jack L. Hofman, Steven Holen, and Jeanette M. Blackmar	69
6.	The Colorado Front Range — Anatomy of a Laramide Uplift Karl S. Kellogg, Bruce Bryant, and John C. Reed Jr.	89
7.	Continental accretion, Colorado style: Proterozoic island arcs and backarcs of the Central Front Range Lisa Rae Fisher and Thomas R. Fisher	109
8.	Eco-geo hike along the Dakota hogback, north of Boulder, Colorado Peter W. Birkeland, E.E. Larson, C.S.V. Barclay III, E. Evanoff, and J. Pitlick	131
9.	The South Cañon Number 1 Coal Mine fire: Glenwood Springs, Colorado Glenn B. Stracher, Steven Renner, Gary Colaizzi, and Tammy P. Taylor	143
10.	Field guide to the paleontology and volcanic setting of the Florissant fossil beds, Colorado Herbert W. Meyer, Steven W. Veatch, and Amanda Cook	151
11.	Paleoceanographic events and faunal crises recorded in the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of west Texas and southern New Mexico John F. Taylor, Paul M. Myrow, Robert L. Ripperdan, James D. Loch, and Raymond L. Ethington	167
12.	The consequences of living with geology: A model field trip for the general public (second edition) David M. Abbott Jr. and David C. Noe	185
13.	Surface and underground geology of the world-class Henderson molybdenum porphyry mine, Colorado James R. Shannon, Eric P. Nelson, and Robert J. Golden Jr.	207
14.	Walking with Dinosaurs (and other extinct animals) along Colorado’s Front Range: A field trip to Paleozoic and Mesozoic terrestrial localities Joanna L. Wright	219