Spanish Peaks

American  

plural noun

1. two mountains, West Spanish Peak (13,626 feet; 4,153 meters) and East Spanish Peak (12,683 feet; 3,866 meters), in S Colorado, in the E Sangre de Christo range.

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Example Sentences

To get nearer to solving the mystery of the plains, the researchers collected and analyzed rocks from the Spanish Peaks east to Two Buttes, a geologic formation near the Kansas border.

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They found that the rocks forming the Spanish Peaks injected into the crust below Colorado as magma around 24 million years ago, but remained miles underground until about 17 million years ago.

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The Spanish Peaks have long been an important monument for generations of people who have called southern Colorado home.

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According to the team's results, the Spanish Peaks first formed when magma welled up from deep within Earth's crust but didn't quite break through to the surface.

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Between roughly 18 and 14 million years ago, more than a mile of sedimentary rocks around the Spanish Peaks eroded away, then were swept into the Arkansas River.

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