2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/9862Collier's Rocky Mountain Scenery. Published at Central City Colorado.No.107. 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. There 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 wonder of the present day. Some of them are a hundred feet in height. Travelers have assigned a garden to the gods; why should ...Date scanned: 2000-09-23.Identifier: SC117.Mounted on cardboard; text on front and verso.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Stereopair showing the Pantheon rock formation at the Garden of the Gods just north of Manitou Springs, Colorado.Natural monumentsGeology, ColoradoStillImage