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Walk With a Geologist Guided Walking Tours (ages 16+) - Dinosaur Ridge, CO


*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 04/24/2021
Have you ever wondered about the geology behind the discoveries and fossils at Dinosaur Ridge? Join a professional geologist for a tour of Dinosaur Ridge–a 2½-hour walk and discussion of the geology and changes of the Denver area through time.

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This walk begins at the Dinosaur Ridge Main Visitor Center, 16831 W. Alameda Parkway. You will be transported by van from the Visitor Center to the west side of Dinosaur Ridge for a 1½-mile walk back. The first quarter-mile of the walk gains approximately 100 feet of elevation. The remaining 1¼ miles of the walk is downhill. These exclusive tours offer you private access to scientists who can give you insider secrets about all of the sites at Dinosaur Ridge.

 

Your tour leader will explain:

  • the Precambrian–Fountain Formation unconformity located across the valley in Red Rocks Park;
  • the missing rocks and life in between the Precambrian and the Pennsylvanian time;
  • the dinosaur fossils and environment of formation of the Jurassic Morrison Formation;
  • the volcanic ash bed in the Cretaceous Dakota Formation;
  • why there are oil and gas deposits in the Denver Basin;
  • the dinosaur track site that developed along a swamp section of the Cretaceous beach;
  • the tidal channel and associated life along other stretches of that same beach;
  • and finally, the Cretaceous interior seaway that extended across Colorado from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico

Your leader will use maps that show how North America and Colorado fit into a global pattern of movements with the assembly of the supercontinent Pangea that allowed world-wide migration of dinosaurs to our continental dispersal of today.

 

REGISTER:

 

  • Admission to the exhibit hall, Trek Through Time, is included with ticket
  • Reservations by phone: 303-697-3466

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Organization:

Dinosaur Ridge

Location:

16831 W. Alameda Parkway
Morrison, CO, 80465
United States

Phone:

303.697.3466
Contact name: 
Erin
Email address: 
The event has already taken place on this date: 
04/24/2021
Time: 
12pm - 2:30pm
Price: 
$15 per person (ages 16+)

Ages

Teenagers Adults without kids