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  2. Parachute, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.parachutecolorado.com. The Town of Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. [6] The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

  3. Project Rulison - Wikipedia

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    View of Rulison Site. Project Rulison, named after the rural community of Rulison, Colorado, was an underground 40- kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10, 1969, about 8 miles (13 km) SE of the town of Grand Valley, Colorado (now named Parachute, Colorado) in Garfield County. The location of "Surface Ground Zero" is ...

  4. Battlement Mesa, Colorado - Wikipedia

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    It is located on the flank of a hill on the south side of the Colorado River, across from the older town of Parachute. The two communities together are known as "Parachute-Battlement Mesa". The town takes its name from Battlement Mesa, an 11,000-foot-high (3,400 m) basalt-topped mesa that sits to the south of the town.

  5. Colony Shale Oil Project - Wikipedia

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    Colony Shale Oil Project was an oil shale development project at the Piceance Basin near Parachute Creek, Colorado. The project consisted of an oil shale mine and pilot-scale shale oil plant, which used the TOSCO II retorting technology, developed by Tosco Corporation. Over time the project was developed by a consortium of different companies ...

  6. Ute Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Topo map. USGS 7.5' topographic map. Battle Rock, Colorado [1] Ute Mountain, also known as Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain (/ ˈjuːt /; Ute: Wisuv Káruv, Navajo: Dził Naajiní), is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado. It is on the northern edge of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe ...

  7. Parachute Creek - Wikipedia

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    Parachute Creek is a 14.7-mile-long (23.7 km) [3] tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado. The confluence with the Colorado is just south of the community of Parachute and east of U.S. Route 6 .

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