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Maps
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Chronic, H., 1983, Roadside Geology of Arizona, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 322 pp.
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Maps
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Abbott, L. and T. Cook, 2012, Geology Underfoot Along Colorado's Front Range, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 352 pp.
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Chronic, H., 1984, Time, Rocks, and the Rockies: a Geologic Guide to Rocks and Trails of Rocky Mountain National Park, Mountain Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 120 pp.
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Foutz, D., 1994, Geology of Colorado Illustrated, Your Geologist Dell R. Foutz, Grand Junction, CO, 181 pp.
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Maps
GTR Mapping, 2013, Colorado Geologic Highway Map and Shaded Elevation Map with 14,000 Foot Peaks: Selected Mining Districts, & Dinosaur Localities, GTR Mapping, Cañon City, CO.
Chronic, H., 1987, Roadside Geology of New Mexico, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 255 pp.
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Maps
Wilks, M. E., 2005, New Mexico Geologic Highway Map, New Mexico Geological Society, Albuquerque, NM
Barnes, F. A., 1993, Geology of the Moab Area, Canyon Country Publications, Moab, UT.
Eldredge, S., 1996, Canyon Country: a Geologic Guide to the Canyonlands Travel Region, Utah Geological Survey, Public Information Series 34, 24 pp.
Fillmore, R., 2000, The Geology of the Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Southern Utah, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 280 pp.
Fillmore, R., 2011, Geological Evolution of the Colorado Plateau of Eastern Utah and Western Colorado, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 524 pp.
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Stokes, W. L., 1986, Geology of Utah, Utah Museum of Natural History and Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey, 280+ pp.
Williams, F., L. Chronic, and H. Chronic, 2014, Roadside Geology of Utah, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, MT, 416 pp.
