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Dotsero Cut-Off
Dotsero Crater is an elongate, long by wide, maar incised into sedimentary strata of the side of a mountain, called ''Blowout Hill'', and local, irregular, mountainous topography. At an elevation of , its north rim lies about higher than its south rim. Dotsero Crater is about deep. It is part of a maar and scoria cone complex in which the associated scoria cones are constructed along a NNE-SSW line on either side of the maar and is perched near the upper edge of steep sided canyons about above the valley floor of the Eagle River (Colorado), Eagle River. The axis of the maar and scoria cone complex aligns with the axis of a local syncline. Associated with the maar and scoria cones is a lahar and -long lava flow. Dotsero Crater lies northeast of Dotsero, Colorado near the junction of the Colorado River and the Eagle River.Sweeney, M.R., Grosso, Z.S. and Valentine, G.A., 2018. ''Topographic controls on a phreatomagmatic maar-diatreme eruption: Field and numerical results from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dotsero, Colorado
Dotsero is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Eagle County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Edwards, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Dotsero CDP was 1,172 at the United States Census 2020. The Gypsum post office ( Zip Code 81637) serves the area. History Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Dotsero was an important railroad junction point for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad's Denver to Salt Lake City line. Originally the line passed through Dotsero following the Eagle River towards Tennessee Pass and through the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River en route to Pueblo, Colorado before turning north towards Denver. Through the years, efforts were made to have a more direct connection between Denver and Salt Lake that did not require detouring through Pueblo. The Denver and Salt Lake Railroad (D&SL) built a line west from Denver and entered the Colorado River canyon near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
