“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website ...

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

The uplifting of the current Rockies turned the Fountain formation bed on its edge so water and wind could sculpt the modern Red Rocks,” the Red Rocks website reads.

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

The massive slabs of red rock that make up Red Rocks Amphitheatre are the result of hundreds of millions of years of forces like geologic uplifts, erosion, the rise and fall of inland seas, and the… ...

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.

“These enormous rock gardens were built by water, wind and ice that wore down the ancestral range,” the Red Rocks website states. Not all rocks from the Fountain Formation are red, however.