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Geological Field Guide · CO · OR · TX

Deep Time Terrain

The rock beneath your boots — what it was, when it formed, and what you can find.

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Era legend
Proterozoic
1,800–1,000 Ma — ancient basement
Pennsylvanian–Permian
323–252 Ma — Ancestral Rockies
Jurassic
201–145 Ma — dinosaur floodplains
Cretaceous
145–66 Ma — interior seaway
Eocene
56–34 Ma — tropical calderas
Miocene
23–5 Ma — flood basalts
Pliocene–Recent
5 Ma–now — active volcanics