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Static Peak is a mountain peak in the U.S. state of
Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
, within State Forest State Park and part of the Never Summer Mountain Range. It is located in a chain of peaks and lies between Nokhu Crags to the north and Mount Richthofen to the south. To the east lie the shallow basins of Snow Lake and to the west the mountain descends directly into the deep waters of Lake Agnes.


Geology

Approximately 24–29 million years ago, rising magma began to create volcanoes that were the predecessors of the
Never Summer Mountains The Never Summer Mountains (from Arapaho: ''Ni-chebe-chii'') are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in north central Colorado in the United States consisting of over twenty named peaks. The range is located along the northwest border of Rock ...
. The magma cooled into granitic formations that have weathered into the current mountain range.


See also

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List of Colorado mountain ranges All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical mode ...
* List of Colorado mountain summits **
List of Colorado fourteeners This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed of elevation. In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a ''fourteener'' is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet. This is a co ...
** List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits **
List of the most prominent summits of Colorado The following sortable table comprises the 100 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea le ...
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List of Colorado county high points This is a list of the 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado by their points of highest elevation. Of the 50 highest county high points in the United States, 30 are located in Colorado. The highest point in Colorado and the Rocky Mountai ...


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SummitPost.orgRocky Mountain National Park, Geology Field NotesLocal Backcountry Advocacy
Mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park Mountains of Grand County, Colorado Mountains of Jackson County, Colorado Three-thousanders of the United States Great Divide of North America {{Colorado-geo-stub