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Image Caption: Central Colorado--Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains, Sangre de Cristo range, San Juan Mountains. Denver, Colorado Springs, Ft. Collins. Royal Gorge and Canon City. Exceptionally detailed regional view of the northern Rio Grande rift, transecting virtually all of Colorado. Colorado Sand Dunes National Monument is the tan area along the west flank of the Sangre de Cristo range. The broad San Luis rift valley, with pivot-irrigated fields, extends south to the volcanic peaks at the Colorado-New Mexico state line. Taos, NM is in the embayment in the Sangre de Cristo (far left of view) and the Embudo fault zone (transfer zone) heads southwest toward the Jemez Mts. (partially visible). Pikes Peak is the unvegetated peak north (right) of the Arkansas River. South Park, on the west side of the Front Range is another of the chain of rift valleys. Faults that have dropped the valleys down became active about 24 million years ago and have continued to be active into historic times.