Editing Front Range (section)

===Quaternary deposits===
Eventually, at about 10 million years ago, the Front Range began to rise up again and the resistant granite in the heart of the mountains thrust upwards and stood tall, while the weaker sediments deposited above it eroded away. As the Front Range rose, streams and recent (16,000 years ago) glaciations during the [[Quaternary]] age literally unburied the range by cutting through the weaker sediment and giving rise to the granitic peaks present today.<ref name="ancientdenvers" /> This was the last step in forming the present-day geologic sequence and history of today's Front Range.<ref name="ancientdenvers" />
{{wide image|Mountains_from_westlands.jpg|1000px|The Front Range as viewed from [[Greenwood Village, Colorado|Greenwood Village]] south of Denver, [[Mount Blue Sky]] is on the far right, in the clouds.}}