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Founded in 1882, the Colorado Scientific Society promotes knowledge, the understanding of science, and its application to human needs, focusing primarily on earth science, but welcoming members with interests in all fields of science. |
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Upcoming Field Trips
CSS 2009 Spring Field Trip
Student grants are available!!
Join us and be immersed in the innards of the ancient volcano at the Victor Mine outside of Cripple
Creek, Colorado. Strange rocks and volcanic structures of many types will be seen: phonolites, lamprophyres,
and volcanic cooling columns. Looking at the high wall, tunnels of the old mine workings
lend a respect for the immensity of the present
operation.
Next the tour will go to the crusher building
with its primary cone crusher and secondary
crushers that prepare the ore for the leach heaps.
The final stop is the Ed Hunter mill building where
the solutions come from the leach pads into the
charcoal filtering vats. From there the gold is
poured... but no one but very trusted employees
are allowed in that room!
We will make several stops as we drive down
from Lakewood through the Pikes Peak Batholith,
the Great Unconformity and the Cambro-Ordovician
section, highly fractured and re-cemented
sandstone dikes in the Sawatch Formation, and the
Tertiary Divide gravel. The mine tour guides (Tim
Brown and others) will meet us in Victor at 1:00
p.m. to give us a brief history of the town and mine and then we will head up to the mine for a 2.5-hour
tour. Click here for PDF of information and field trip Sign-up Form.
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Virtual FieldtripsNEW!! Geology of Marshall Mesa Open Space, Boulder, Colorado (pdf) NEW!! Field Guide to the Geology Along the Old Kiln Trail, Boulder, Colorado (doc)
The Geology Along the Trails West of NCAR (html)
(pdf)
Past Fieldtrips 2008
Past Fieldtrips 2007
Past
Fieldtrips 2006
Past Fieldtrips 2005
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