Just west of Denver as you start up the Rockies. Neither of us took this photo, but we've seen this section as we climbed out of Denver. It is a powerful picture of the huge geological forces that probably tilted these strata down to the east about 45 ° (i.e. to the left here) and then caused the nearly horizontal thrust faults across them. Someday, I would like to stop and wander around here a bit to learn more. One question would be: if the pressures came from the west in this location, why is each lower thrust fault shown here pushed farther east than the one on top of it? The horizontal pressures must have been greater at depth, and all this rock must have been deeply buried when the faulting began (but this is just my guess). July 2000
