Pikes Peak was formed by a dome of molten rock being pushed up from underground. Over 300 million years, erosion from glaciers and frost wedging carved and shaped Pikes Peak into the prominent peak seen today, exposing the pink potassium feldspar that gives Pikes Peak its distinctive color.

1. PIKES PEAK

2. How was Pikes Peak
Formed?
By a dome of molten rock
being pushed up from a
batholith.
First stage of the Rocky
Mountains were the
Ancestrial Mountains, caused
by seafloor spreading.
Over millions of years of
erosion we see pikes peak as
it is today.

3. 300 million years of
glacier erosion shaped
Pikes Peak.
Frost wedging was the
most expedited way of
features being carved.

4. Pikes Peak pink
coloring comes from
the potassium feldpar

5. Google earth images of the
features of Pikes Peak