Colorado Cenozoic Chart
N Amer. Piceance Basin, Upper Arkansas, Denver- NW San Juan, Sand Wash Eagle Middle-North South Park Front Range Raton Southeast Geologic Ma Epoch Land San Juan San Luis Julesburg Mammal
Era Paradox Basins Basin Basin Park Basin Basin Outcrops Basin Colorado History Age Volcanics Valleys Basin Period 0 Mesa de Maya basalt ows Irvingtonian Dotsero Volcano 1, 4-5 my basalt Raton basalt ows 10-0 MY Gravels at Divide Plio/Pleis Alamosa Gravel Mt gravels Independence Mt Blancan gravels Ogallala Ogallala Tilt conglomerate Advent of San Juan Advent of Yampa, White Dry Rifting Advent of Yampa R Advent of Colorado Hemphillian and Colorado Rivers and Colorado Rivers Union and Eagle Rivers Ch 8
Regional uplift Breeze Mtn (Yampa Stocks)
Grouse Mtn Basalt Local advent of 10 Neogene Grand Mesa Volcanics Clarendonian Colorado River Flat Tops Volcanics Goodenough Treasure Mtn Santa Fe Trump Wagon Tongue Miocene Barstovian Los Pinos Martins Canyon Browns Park Browns Park Troublesome North Park Advent of Rio Grande Hemingfordian River
20 Cedar Mtn
Arikaree Arikareean Spanish Peaks Pitch- Pinnacle San Juan Volcanics Rhyolite Tu Creede Healing Phase 2 San Juan Volcanics Oligocene Rabbit Ears Volcanics Mt Cumulus Mt Richthofen Cripple Ck 30 Whitneyan West Elk Volcanics Conejos Brule
Bishop Cgl White River Chapter 7 Orellan Gilbert Peak erosion surface White River Chadron Central Colo- Antero rado Volcanics Tallahassee Creek Cgl Devil’s Hole Chadronian Mt Sopris Castle Rock Cgl Devils Hole Two Buttes Telluride Cgl Castle Rock Rhyolite Echo Park Wall Mountain Tu 39 Mile Volcanics Florissant (Wall Mtn Tu ) Duchesnean Larkspur Cgl
Montezuma 40 CENOZOIC
Breckenridge Laccolith Uintan
Eocene Washakie/Bridger Farisita Uinta Mohogany Bench
Bridgerian Green River Blanco Basin Huerfano-Cuchara Paleogene 50
Wasatchian San Jose Shire Mbr Animas
Coalmont Elkhorn Cgl D2 Sequence Dawson Arkose Clarkforkian Laramide Orogeny Molina Wasatch Laramide Poison Canyon Orogenic P5 pollen Wasatch Middle Park Raton gravels Ti anian Atwell Gulch Mbr P4 pollen
Nacimiento/Animas Ch 6 60 Link Springs
Paleocene Laramide Ft Union Ft Union Torrejonian South Park N Atlantic Opens, America driftsW Laramide Green Mtn Cgl Paleosol
Ohio Ck Cgl Windy Gap Table Mt lava Puercan D1 Sequence Advent of South Advent of Arkansas River Advent of Arkansas River Ojo Alamo Mo at Cgl Advent of South Platte River Platte River Reinecker Ridge Cgl Denver sub-Ohio Ck unconformity Granby sills Laramie Raton Cgl sub-Ojo Alamo unconformity sub-Mo at unconformity Pole Ck ow Arapahoe Cgl sub-Reinecker unconformity sub-Arapahoe unconformity Ohio Ck zone Laramie Laramie Maas. Laramie sub-Windy Gap unconformity Lance/Williams Fork Pando Porphyry Fox Hills 70 Fox Hills Fox Hills Whitehorn Vermejo Kirtland Fox Hills Fox Hills Stock Williams Fork/ Lion Cyn Larimer and Rocky Ridge Mesaverde Lewis Trinidad Trout Ck Gunsight Pass Cameo Twentymile Iles Fruitland Trout Ck Terry Tow Ck Carter
Pictured Cli s Rollins Laramide Iles Cozzette Hygiene Hygiene
Cretaceous Pierre Corcoran Hygiene Pierre Pierre Campanian Meeker Pierre Sego Pierre Kremmling
Chapter 5 MESOZOIC Lewis Cretaceous Buck Tongue Castlegate Mancos Interior Seaway Mancos Pierre 80 Sevier Orogeny Mancos Apache Ck NALMA ages from Barnosky et al 2014 RR May 22, 2018