The Quaternary in Colorado, US

Paleontology and geology

Erosion sculpted the modern Colorado landscape during the Quaternary. Mountain glaciers were present in the Rockies, but did not extend far onto the Great Plains. True prairies appeared for the first time, and mammoths, camels, bison, horses, sloths, lions, cheetah, bear, peccaries and other large mammals were fairly common.

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Education and Exhibits

Virtual Exhibits (showing 2 of 2 listings)

Ancient Denvers: Ancient Denvers is a virtual exhibit that highlights 13 reconstructions of ancient Colorado landscapes.

Ice Age Online: Ice Age Online, originally developed to accompany a temporary exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, offers a wealth of information on the Pleistocene ice age, including profiles of ice-age vertebrates, and a discussion of how we know that the ice age occurred.

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