1. Pikes Peak: America the
Beautiful
http://www.pikespeaktv.com/Pikes%20Peak%20For%20Web%20Big.jpg

2. History
• Pikes Peak is a National Historic
Landmark
• Popular tourist attraction being the eastern
most 14er in Colorado
• Snow can occur at the peak any time of
the year
• Igneous batholith first created over 1
billion years ago

3. Geological Makeup
Pikes Peak is created of
pink granite. Pink granite
is an igneous rock
consisting of feldspar,
mica, and quartz. Granite
gets its pink hue from
orthoclase feldspar.
These igneous rocks are
created from magma deep
inside earth.

4. Millions of Years Ago in a Land Not
so Far Away
• Colorado has the luck of having a very
diverse terrain
• There are mountains, plains, plateaus,
and mesas
• The granite at Pikes Peak was formed 1
billion years ago
• Three stages led to the mountain as we
see it today

5. Stage One
• The Rockies have ancestors too
• The first Rocky Mountains were created a
billion years ago
• This included sea floor spreading that led
to the fault line in Colorado converging
and creating the beginnings of todays
mountains

6. Stage Two
• Great erosion turned this range into rubble
through weathering
• Traces of it can now be seen in areas
such as Garden of the Gods
• Water came to cover the area and brought
more sediment with it
• This sediment covered the sea floor that
would become the crust of the early Rocky
Mountains

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As slow converging pushed
the batholith upward, erosion
scraped the sediment crust
off exposing the massive
granite formation.
This left a massive piece of
rock for mother nature to
carve as she seemed fit.
Not only were there glaciers,
but streams and wind helped
carve the faces of the
grandiose mountain.

8. Stage 3: Rise of the Ice Age
• Glaciers carve the
Rockies as we know
them today
• Frost wedging broke
the solid granite apart
• This carving helped
the granite mountain
to rise to it's full
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9. Works Cited
1. "Pikes Peak, Batholith," Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes_Peak,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batholith
2. "Pikes Peak - America's Mountain,"
http://pikespeak.us.com/Learn/geology.html
3. Hobart King, "Granite," http://geology.com/rocks/granite.shtml
4. "Batholith Science Definition,"
http://science.yourdictionary.com/batholith
5. Sarah, "From Uplift to Glaciation: The Geological History of the Pikes
Peak Region," American Museum of Natural History,
http://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/young-naturalist-awards/winning-
essays2/1999/from-uplift-to-glaciation-the-geological-history-of-the-
pikes-peak-region
6. Darrell Hess, McKnight's Physical Geography A Landscape
Appreciation, Pearson, New Jersey, 2011

10. Works Cited
1. "Pikes Peak, Batholith," Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikes_Peak,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batholith
2. "Pikes Peak - America's Mountain,"
http://pikespeak.us.com/Learn/geology.html
3. Hobart King, "Granite," http://geology.com/rocks/granite.shtml
4. "Batholith Science Definition,"
http://science.yourdictionary.com/batholith
5. Sarah, "From Uplift to Glaciation: The Geological History of the Pikes
Peak Region," American Museum of Natural History,
http://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/young-naturalist-awards/winning-
essays2/1999/from-uplift-to-glaciation-the-geological-history-of-the-
pikes-peak-region
6. Darrell Hess, McKnight's Physical Geography A Landscape
Appreciation, Pearson, New Jersey, 2011