Places

What kind of rocks are the Southern Rockies composed of?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/kind-rocks-southern-rockies-composed-95868.html" >What kind of rocks are the Southern Rockies composed of?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

The Southern Rockies, in New Mexico, Colorado, and S Wyoming, are dominated by two north-south belts of folded mountains that have been eroded to expose cores of Precambrian rocks rimmed by younger sedimentary rocks.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Rocky Mountains . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What is the makeup of the rocks in the Southern Rockies? What states are the Southern Rockies in? What do the Southern Rockies look like? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

MUSIC NOTES.(Weekend)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) ...Syracuse band, Rocky and the Rollers...Lighthouse, kind of a Beatles...bands, that kind of thing...music Carney composed to accompany...STONE Fans of southern rock can help The...players in the southern rock scene...
Anything but the grrrrrl: an interview with musician Ani DiFranco--founder of...
Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine ...she had already composed more than 100...Greatest Women of Rock and Roll," had...Mennonite pastor Rocky Kidd to discuss...Atlanta called the Southern Center for Human...going to go to the Southern Center for Human...wasn't some kind of brilliant 15...top 100 women of rock. In ...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.