Group of monuments
dc.date | 1870?-1890? | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:57:26Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:27:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:57:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:27:21Z | |
dc.identifier | libimagesSC141 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/9889 | |
dc.description | Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery. Published at Central City Colorado. | |
dc.description | No. 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.description | Date scanned: 2000-10-19. | |
dc.description | Identifier: SC141. | |
dc.description | Mounted on cardboard; text on front and verso. | |
dc.description | Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines. | |
dc.description.abstract | Stereopair showing a group of rock formations near Manitou Springs. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
dc.subject | Natural monuments | |
dc.subject | Geology, Colorado | |
dc.title | Group of monuments | |
dc.type | StillImage | |
dc.contributor.institution | Arthur Lakes Library | |
dc.contributor.institution | Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery | |
dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
dc.contributor.institution | Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive |