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    Pikes Peak granite is a 1.08 billion year old Late-Precambrian geologic formation found in the central part of the Front Range of Colorado. It is a coarse-grained...
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    Colorado Springs. Pikes Peak is a designated National Historic Landmark. It is composed of a characteristic pink granite called Pikes Peak granite. The color...
    31 KB (3,138 words) - 18:58, 26 June 2024
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    form what is now known as the Precambrian Pikes Peak Granite. Over the next 500 million years, the granite eroded with no sedimentation forming over this...
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  • Pikes Peak (formerly Pike's Peak) is the eponymic mountain in the Colorado Front Range of the Rocky Mountains Pikes Peak may also refer to: Pike's Peak...
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  • Thumbnail for Mineralogy of the Pikes Peak Region
    Because the granite covers a large portion of the Colorado Front Range, there are good mineral collecting areas scattered all over the Pikes Peak region....
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    explorer Zebulon Pike. Much of the bedrock within Pike National Forest is made up of the coarse, pink to orange Pikes Peak granite. Pike National Forest...
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    Devil's Head Lookout (category Pike National Forest)
    Colorado. Located on a large pinnacle of Pikes Peak granite, the fire lookout point lies within the Pike National Forest and is accessed by hiking the...
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    The basement is the Proterozoic aged Pikes Peak Granite. There is an unconformity from the Pikes Peak Granite to the next unit, the Wall Mountain tuff...
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  • Thumbnail for Pikes Peak International Raceway
    Pikes Peak International Raceway (PPIR) is a racetrack in the Colorado Springs area within the city limits of Fountain, Colorado, that by October 12, 1997...
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  • the Precambrian Pikes Peak Granite. Over the next 500 million years, sedimentation (sediment deposition) occurred after the granite was produced. At...
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    the peak's relatively low elevation means there's often less snow than on higher peaks. The peak is made up of Pikes Peak granite. "Long Scraggy Peak"....
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    of felsic or intermediate rock types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite (see also granite dome). Although they may appear uniform, batholiths...
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    composed of limestone and dolomite deposits many kilometers thick. Pikes Peak granite formed during the late Precambrian eon, continuing well into the Paleozoic...
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  • 170722°N 113.296083°W / 40.170722; -113.296083 The Granite Peak Installation (GPI) — also known as Granite Peak Range — was a U.S. biological weapons testing...
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    nepheline syenite pegmatites and granite and aplite greisens. It is associated with microcline and astrophyllite at Pikes Peak, Colorado. It is also found...
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    Pikes Peak region. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, and was the 2nd property to be listed in El Paso County, after Pikes Peak...
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  • Thumbnail for History of Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Cheyenne Mountain on the city's southwest, were formed of Precambrian Pikes Peak granite uplifted in the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. Formation of the city's...
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    Granite is an unincorporated community with a U.S. Post Office in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The zip code of Granite is 81228. According...
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    summer. It grows on granite substrates above the tree line. The plant is threatened by construction and maintenance on the Pikes Peak Highway. "Cymopterus...
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  • Thumbnail for List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
    Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Pikes Peak". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Pikes Peak". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Windom Peak". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved...
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