TOURING COLORADO GEOLOGY

  
   

Fountain Hoodoos

 

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Along the road between Woodland Park and Deckers.  Fountain Formation hoodoos at Manitou Picnic Area, Teller County, Colorado.. 

Latitude: 39º 5' 13"
Longitude: 105º 5' 57"
Elevation: 7760'
  Hoodoo: "A fantastic column, pinnacle, or pillar of rock produced in a region of sporadic heavy rainfall by differential weathering, or erosion of horizontal strata, facilitated by joints and by layers of varying hardness, and occurring in varied and often eccentric or grotesque forms." (Glossary of Geology, 1997)

The hoodoos here are formed of red sandstones of the Fountain Formation. 

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