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page 40 Mountains & Mesas Pass Creek Pass divides geologic eras Once you’re in Gardner, start looking off to your left for Co Rd 550. Be aware that this is a dirt road heading up into the mountains with no real amenities along it, so excercise caution. Once on Co Rd 550, drive for about five miles, then turn left onto Co Rd 570. Stay on that road for about 3.6 miles, it will turn into Cross Creek Road. Stay on that, turn slightly left, onto Co Rd 572, and you will be on Pass Creek Road. Follow Pass Creek Road through the mountains for stunning views of the 25 million year old intrusions on the east side, and 1.7 billion year old mountains on the west side. As you come down over the pass, hang a left at the fork in the road (should be about 17 miles on the Pass Creek Road) and keep driving until you reach Highway 160. Turn left again, heading east, and follow the highway back to Walsenburg. If Oldies rock tours by Ruth Orr Okay, so maybe there aren’t any guitars, keyboards, or crazy haired men in tight leather, but the rock tours outlined here are worth screaming for anyway. We are lucky to live in an incredibly geologically diverse and historically rich area of the country. From the tops of our mountains and mesas to the bottoms of our valleys, we can read the history of our land in the rocks. Now, with the help of these trips, you can travel through time and see the processes that made our counties what they are today. Rock On- Gneiss guitar, man Red remnants of a long gone range The geologic history of the area is ancient. Between one and two billion years ago, huge beds of granite formed all over the area. A range of mountains known as the Ancestral Rockies uplifted in the same place the current Rocky Mountains are today. As they eroded, huge amounts of sediments were dropped in the low areas near the mountains. As they hardened, they formed the thick beds of red rock that gave Colorado its name. You can see these rocks if you drive along Highway 69 from Walsenburg to Gardner and look right, at the base of Greenhorn Mountain. They are also visible if you want to get out of the car and hike a bit. (For more info see the Red Rocks on the Cucharas Trip. ) As you drive along Highway 69, keep an eye out for the Gardner Butte on the right hand side of the road before you reach Gardner. About 27 million years ago, the Sangre de Cristo mountains were thrust upward, and the faulting caused breaks and cracks in the surrounding rock. Bubbles of magma pushed up, but failed to reach the surface. They slowly hardened into the Spanish Peaks, Mount Maestas, Silver Mountain, and the Sheep Mountains. Around the same time, smaller cracks in the rock allowed for Gardner Butte, Huerfano Butte, and the world-famous dikes around the new mountain systems. All the buttes are volcanic pugs, essentially magma blocks that hardned underground before they could successfully explode out onto the surface. The softer rock around them slowly eroded away, finally exposing the rock to the surface.
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