GEL 3520 - Advanced Garden of the Gods-Front Range Geology

Credits: 2

Prerequisite(s): Nine hours of geography or geology or permission of instructor

Description: This course requires an analytical approach to the geology along the Front Range from Boulder to Colorado Springs through rock exposures covering a span of approximately two billion years. Along with basic concepts of geology, the formations exposed along the Front Range, including their age, rock types, origins and economic products, are analyzed within a context of geologic history.

Note: Students cannot take both GEL 1520 and GEL 3520 for credit.