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Neogene Tectonism in South-Central Colorado
Abstract
Miocene-Pliocene history is recorded in south-central Colorado by sediments deposited in subsiding basins bounded by fault-block mountains and by faulted sedimentary and volcanic deposits lying on a channeled late Eocene erosion surface of regional extent. The San Luis Valley and upper Arkansas Valley are en echelon segments of the Rio Grande trough that are constricted and faulted south of Salida at the northern end of the Sangre de Cristo Range. Great movements on the bounding faults during Neogene time are indicated by clastic and volcanic trough fill, which may be 10,000 m thick near Alamosa and 1,500 m thick near...
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