Introduction -- Pioneer geologists of the American West / Dr W. Lyle Dockery -- Physical geology -- Regional geography -- Cities, towns and highways / American Association of Petroleum Geologists and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Rocky Mountain chain is a fascinating geologic ...

This past winter, the Rocky Mountains experienced an historic snow drought, a worrying development for the tens of millions of people in the arid American West who depend on snowmelt for water. Now, a ...

This is an artistic reconstruction of what Colorado would have looked like 67 million years ago. The latest issue of the University of Wyoming’s only peer-reviewed scientific journal, Rocky Mountain ...

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the grinding edge of any modern tectonic plate boundary. For decades, geologists tried ...

Though towering mountains are plentiful across the U.S., few states are quite as synonymous with mountains as Colorado. Gifted with many of the highest peaks and extraordinary sights of the Rocky ...