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Article: CORE VALUES SCIENTISTS TO DRILL 2,000 FEET INTO ELBERT COUNTY TO UNLOCK STATE'S GEOLOGICAL MYSTERIES.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- February 15, 1998
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Byline: Joseph B. Verrengia Rocky Mountain News Science Writer
KIOWA -- Fifty miles east on the high plains is the last place where you'd expect to find where the Rocky Mountains erupted.
Earth scientists, frustrated by a century of debate over how Colorado's landscape evolved, are turning their backs on the Continental Divide - and conventional wisdom - to drill a hole through the Elbert County Fairgrounds.
Not just any hole, but a continuous 2,000-foot core through layers of sand, gravel and bedrock that have accumulated in a deep bowl over the past billion years.
This buried bowl, which extends from the Front Range to Limon, is ...