This week I decided to take a virtual trip to the Rocky Mountains, a spot where many people in Colorado like to hike, camp, and enjoy the regions wonderful beauty. Although the Rocky Mountains are starting in Canada, many have explored the area from Colorado to New Mexico.
I discovered that the
central parts of the mountain range are made up of a continental crust which is
more than 1 billion years old. In the case of this mountain range, the rocks
were still in place until the converging change of the plates lifted them to a
series of mountains. The change that triggered it was dubbed the Laramide Orogeny.
The Laramide Orogeny is an geological
event that happened over the course of 30 million years during the Cretaceous period.
Since the initial growth of the mountain range, the ice solidified the present
form by rolling over the rocks and eroding them to some degree. The effect is a
spectacular collection of soaring mountains that make for wonderful hiking,
with plenty of lakes and steep valleys.
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