found in an unusual pebbly sandstone encapsulated within the granite that forms Colorado’s Pikes Peak. Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name ...

The imposing mountain beckoned 19th-century, fortune-seeking pioneers, inspiring the Gold Rush cry, "Pikes Peak or Bust!" Later, the majestic vistas atop this pink granite peak led Katharine Lee ...

Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the frontal part of the Rocky Mountains in North America. The granite mountain is 14,115 miles in elevation and is located in Pike National Forest 12 miles west ...

Last year, the city of Colorado Springs opened the new Pikes Peak Summit Visitors Center to ... blending with the colors and textures of the granite of the mountain and the surrounding landscape ...

In new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, our team of geologists describes the missing link, found in an unusual pebbly sandstone encapsulated within the ...