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Ogden Tweto (1912 - 1983) created the now-classic Geologic Map of Colorado [1] which is held as one of the finest examples of a state geologic map. [2]Tweto received awards including the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of the Interior (1970) and the Scientist of the Year Award by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (1978). [2]
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1909 – Colorado State Geological Survey publishes first geological map and report. 1916 – The name is changed to the Colorado Geological Survey. 1925 – The Colorado Geological Survey goes out of existence after publishing 31 Bulletins on various aspects of the geology and mineral resources (including oil shale) of Colorado.
Colorado River drainage system, extending from Wyoming into the Southwest United States. Mountain sucker: Catostomus platyrhynchus: Native to northwestern Colorado. The mountain sucker inhabits smaller rivers and streams with gravel, sand, and mud bottoms. They are also found in eddies and small pools with a medium current.
In 2015, the USGS unveiled the topoView website, a new way to view their entire digitized collection of over 178,000 maps from 1884 to 2006. The site is an interactive map of the United States that allows users to search or move around the map to find the USGS collection of maps for a specific area.
This is a list of drainage basins in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado encompasses the headwaters of several important rivers. The state is divided into two major hydrographic regions by the Continental Divide of the Americas .
The borders of Colorado are now officially defined by 697 boundary markers connected by straight boundary lines. [3] Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah are the only states that have their borders defined solely by straight boundary lines with no natural features. [4] The southwest corner of Colorado is the Four Corners Monument at 36°59'56"N, 109°2 ...
The USGS convention has been to use Colorado Group where the rocks are further divided into formations, Colorado Formation where no beds are developed enough to be mapped as formations, and Colorado Shale where the unit is composed of little more than shale with no distinctive structures (such as in north-central Montana).