The Denver Basin , sometimes also called the Julesburg Basin , Denver-Julesburg Basin (after Julesburg, Colorado ), or the D-J Basin , is a geologic structural basin centered in eastern Colorado in the United States , but extending into southeast Wyoming , western Nebraska , and western Kansas . It underlies the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains .
The basin consists of a large asymmetric syncline of Paleozoic , Mesozoic , and Cenozoic sedimentary rock layers, trending north to south along the east side of the Front Range from the vicinity of Pueblo northward into Wyoming . The basin is deepest near Denver, where it reaches a depth of approximately 13,000 ft (3900 m) below the surface. The basin is strongly asymmetric: the Dakota Sandstone outcrops in a "hog-back" ridge near Morrison a few miles west of Denver, reaches its maximum depth beneath Denver
The basin started forming as early as 300 million years ago, during the Colorado orogeny that created the Ancestral Rockies . Rocks formed during this time include the Fountain Formation , which is most prominently visible at Red Rocks and the Boulder Flatirons . The basin was most likely further deepened in Paleogene time, between 66 and 45 million years ago, during the Laramide orogeny that created the modern Colorado Rockies. In particular, the uplifting of the Rockies in the Front Range caused the crust
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