The Southern Rocky Mountains are a major subregion of the Rocky Mountains of North America located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, the central and western portions of Colorado, the northern portion of New Mexico, and extreme eastern portions of Utah.

The Southern Rocky Mountain province is a mountainous terrain that includes some of the highest peaks in New Mexico (e.g., Wheeler Peak at 13,161 ft.). The mountain ranges that are considered to be part of the Southern Rocky Mountains include the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Tusas Mountains, and the Sierra Nacimiento.

The Southern Rocky Mountains make up the southern part of the much larger Rocky Mountains of North America. This range occupies parts of three western states with the greatest majority of it spread throughout the western half of Colorado.

2025年1月27日 · The Southern Rockies include the Front Range and the Wet and Sangre de Cristo mountains along the eastern slope and the Park, Gore, and Sawatch ranges and the San Juan Mountains along the western slope.

The Southern Rockies are composed of a disconnected series of lofty elongated upwarps, their cores made of granitic basement rocks, stripped of sediments, and heavily glaciated at high elevations. In New Mexico and along the western flanks of the Colorado ranges, widespread volcanism and deformation of…

2017年8月29日 · The Rocky Mountains contain many of the highest peaks in North America at over 14,000 feet. The Rockies are usually divided into four distinct sections – the Canadian Rockies, Northern Rockies, Central Rockies, and the Southern Rockies.

In the southern Rocky Mountains, near present-day Colorado and New Mexico, the Precambrian and Paleozoic rocks were disturbed by mountain building approximately 300 Ma, during the Pennsylvanian. This mountain building produced the Ancestral Rocky Mountains .

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Tusas Mountains, and the Sierra Nacimiento in New Mexico are the ranges composing the southernmost extent of the Southern Rockies. Area: The Southern Rocky Mountains encompass an area of approximately 204,630 sq km (79,000 sq miles)

They include the high and rugged mountain ranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains, located between the Colorado Plateau and the Great Plains; the Uinta Mountains, bordering the northwestern part of the Colorado Plateau; and the Wasatch Mountains, located in Utah along the eastern border of the Basin and Range.

2022年7月27日 · The southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado preserve the Oligocene to Pleistocene record of North American continental arc to rift volcanism. The 35–23 million year old (Ma) southern Rocky Mountain volcanic field (SRMVF), spectacularly preserved in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, records the ...