EARTHSC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rocky Mountain National Park, Laramide Orogeny, Esci
15 Nov 2016
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Rocky mountain national park: clovis paleoindian hunter gatherers, hunted mammoth and other large game, followed the glacial retreat. 6,000 bce -150 ce: archaic hunter-gatherers, ancestors to: 1,500 ce: ute people arrive at the park, apache tribes visited/settled in the park area. 1800 ce: arapaho enter the park. Westward european expansion: settlers met by the imposing wall of the rocky mountains. 30 april 1803: louisiana purchase, thomas jefferson agrees to purchase much of the mid-western us (828,000 acres) from napoleon of france. 1827 ce: the right honorable 4th earl and mount-earl, lord dunraven tried to grab lands around rocky mountain national park. Mountains (extreme heights: clingman"s dome (cid:523)great smoky mountains np(cid:524, long"s peak (cid:523)rocky mountain np(cid:524) Environmental changes: plains to tundra, equivalent of traveling to the arctic circle. Oldest rocks in the national parks system. Laramide orogeny 70-80 mya to 35-55 mya. 2,000 1,800 mya sediment accumulation from pre-existing craton. Sedimentary rocks fromed from eroded pre-existing rocks or.
