We once drove through Walsenburg with a geologist named Brian Penn, passing gas stations and discount stores and fast food chains when suddenly Penn veered his Ford Ranger to the side of the road and ...

History of faulting in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Colorado and Utah / Wallace R. Hansen -- Seismic and borehole evidence for important pre-Laramide faulting along the axial arch in northwest ...

Emily Fairfax fainted when she started her PhD in geology at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015. She was out in the field near Boulder, and it was a hot day. “We were standing and walking to ...

The landscape looks rugged, ancient, and wonderfully out of character, with dark lava rock, giant views, and a crater that makes the whole scene feel slightly unreal. One minute you are expecting ...

Helicopters will be flying low over northern Colorado during the next several months to conduct geological imaging, according to a news release from the U.S. Geological Survey. Beginning in August, ...

What kid hasn’t had some sort of rock collection? Discovering hidden gems is always a treat. Western Colorado is perfect for exploring geology with your kids. Look around — there is evidence of eons ...

University of Colorado Boulder geology students spent two weeks this summer studying Iceland, a place of fire and ice, in an innovative field course that helped them hone their critical-thinking ...

A hidden corner of Monument Valley Park teaches about Colorado Springs’ human history and its much deeper natural history.

Though towering mountains are plentiful across the U.S., few states are quite as synonymous with mountains as Colorado. Gifted with many of the highest peaks and extraordinary sights of the Rocky ...