Comanche Peak layers

Comanche Peak demonstrates the basement/sedimentary rock layering common in this area of the Sangres. Excerpt from the Sangre de Cristo range page: "The southern section of the Front Range (today we call them the Wet Mountains) was rising concurrently and counteracted the proto-Sangre anticline on its east side, which resulted in the development of thrust faults. These faults allowed the earth's crust to relieve stress as basement rock was thrust bodily over the younger sedimentary rock. This occurred at least eight times over, with sedimentary rock squeezed between each layer of basement rock like some octuple-decker sandwich."