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dc.date1870?-1890?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:57:26Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:27:21Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:57:26Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:27:21Z
dc.identifierlibimagesSC141
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/9889
dc.descriptionCollier's Rocky Mountain Scenery. Published at Central City Colorado.
dc.descriptionNo. 106 Monument Series. - Group of Monuments. The Monument region is gaining a world-wide reputation as among the greatest geological wonders and curiosities on the continent. They belong to the cretaceous group of rocks. They consist of columns of soft white chalk conglomerate, capped with a hard ferugenous one. Their origin is this: The chalk conglomerate was first deposited by an ocean in strata from ten to one hundred feet in thickness; on the top of this a thin stratum of ferugenous conglomerate was afterwards deposited, the ferugenous conglomerate became cracked and fissured; the action of winds and waves eroded the chalk conglomerate much faster than the ferugenous capping, leaving the latter to overhang the former, and retard the decomposition and erosion. The action of the elements for the countless ages of the past has carved out these monuments, towers and ruins for the wonders of the present day. Some of them are a hundred feet in height--Verso.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2000-10-19.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: SC141.
dc.descriptionMounted on cardboard; text on front and verso.
dc.descriptionHeld in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.
dc.description.abstractStereopair showing a group of rock formations near Manitou Springs.
dc.description.sponsorshipSponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectNatural monuments
dc.subjectGeology, Colorado
dc.titleGroup of monuments
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionArthur Lakes Library
dc.contributor.institutionCollier's Rocky Mountain Scenery
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionRussell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive


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