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	National Park Service: A Survey of the Recreational Resources of the Colorado River Basin (Chapter 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Though the Colorado Plateau is generally floored with horizontal or slightly inclined sedimentary strata, its surface has been roughened in places by folding, faulting, the building of volcanoes, and the intrusion of igneous rocks—geologic activities that have modified the otherwise normal drainage pattern and the orderly development of erosion features.
		Farther upstream the Colorado River is bordered on the north by the Roan Plateau and on the south by the Uncompahgre Plateau and Grand Mesa.
		—The Mogollon Plateau is a southward and a southeastward extension of the Coconino Plateau.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colorado/chap2a.htm (6271 words)

	National Park Service: A Survey of the Recreational Resources of the Colorado River Basin (Chapter 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Green River Basin, the Uinta Mountain region, and the Colorado Plateau, which constitute by far the greatest and most characteristic part of the vast region drained by the Colorado River north of central Arizona, are relatively simple in topographic expression, physiographic expression, and physiographic history.
		From the hogback across the plateau top, nearly horizontal Paleozoic rocks form the surface, and at their eastern limit are overlapped by steeply tilted Mesozoic beds, the remnants of strata that once overarched the plateau and joined those in the Grand Hogback.
		Unlike the dry plateau country of northern Arizona or the mountain ranges to the south, Verde Valley is destined, both because of its character and location, to be developed as an important source of water and of agricultural produce.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colorado/chap2b.htm (2964 words)

	Colorado Plateau Field Institute - Geology of the Colorado Plateau
		In contrast to this stability, the Colorado Plateau is surrounded by regions that have suffered severe deformation.
		During this fracturing of the crust to the west, the Colorado Plateau was able to preserve its structural integrity and remained a single tectonic block.
		As the Colorado Plateau rose, the streams and rivers responded by cutting ever deeper channels in an effort to maintain their equilibrium stream profiles.
	www.cpfieldinstitute.org /cp_geology.php (894 words)

	HA 730-C Colorado Plateaus aquifer text
		The distribution of aquifers in the Colorado Plateaus is controlled in part by the structural deformation and erosion that has occurred since deposition of the sediments that compose the aquifers.
		The Mesaverde aquifer is at or near land surface in extensive areas of the Colorado Plateaus and underlies the Uinta-Animas aquifer.
		In northwestern Colorado and the eastern part of the Uinta Basin, the stratigraphic equivalent of the Glen Canyon Group is the Glen Canyon Sandstone, and, in the western Uinta Basin, the equivalent is the Nugget Sandstone.
	capp.water.usgs.gov /gwa/ch_c/C-text8.html (5698 words)

	The Colorado Plateau Region (part 1 of 4)
		The Colorado Plateau Region, In Wilderness at the Edge: a citizen proposal to protect Utah's canyons and deserts, Utah Wilderness Coalition, Salt Lake City, 1990, p.
		The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic "province," a region geologically and topographically distinct from other parts of the West.
		Originally named the "Colorado Plateaus" by explorer John Wesley Powell, the "Plateau" is in fact a huge basin ringed by highlands and filled with plateaus.
	www.cpluhna.nau.edu /Places/places.htm (555 words)

	USGS Geology in the Parks
		Throughout the Paleozoic Era, the Colorado Plateau region was periodically inundated by tropical seas.
		In contrast, the plateau is surrounded by provinces that have suffered severe deformation.
		Although the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau may seem to have little in common, their geological stories are intimately intertwined.
	wrgis.wr.usgs.gov /docs/usgsnps/province/coloplat.html (605 words)

	Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Elevations of the plateau tops range from 5,000 to 7,000 ft (1,500 to 2,100 m), with local relief ranging from 500 to more than 3,000 ft (150 to 900 m) in some of the deeper canyons that dissect the plateaus (such as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River).
		The Colorado River, which crosses the northern part of the province, is the region's only large stream.
		Monument Valley, Arizona, a well-defined tableland on the Colorado Plateau.
	www.fs.fed.us /colormap/ecoreg1_provinces.conf?246,338 (673 words)

	CHAPTER I. THE PLATEAU PROVINCE.
		Above 8,000 feet the plateaus are forest-clad and the ground is carpeted with rank grass and an exuberant growth of beautiful summer flowers.
		Both have in common the plateau features; their topographies, climates, and physical features in general, are of similar types, and their geological features and history appear to be closely related.
		The southern part of the Plateau Province may be regarded as a vast basin everywhere bounded by highlands, except at the southwest, where it opens wide and passes suddenly into a region having all the characteristics of the Great Basin of Nevada.
	www.infoplease.com /t/sci/canyon-geology/chapter1.html (8469 words)

	Chapter 6.2 Page 1
		Being part of the Colorado Plateau physiographic province, the Piceance Basin is characterized by a series of high plateaus and deep valleys.
		The northern province, that portion of the Piceance Basin between the Colorado and White Rivers, still retains basin-like features with rocks dipping inward from the margins toward the deepest part of the basin at the northern end.
		The principal rivers that drain the Piceance Basin are the Colorado, Gunnison, North Fork Gunnison, and White.
	geosurvey.state.co.us /wateratlas/chapter6_2page1.asp (334 words)

	THE COLORADO PLATEAU REGION
		Riddle, paradox, and anomaly are the Plateau's stock-in-trade.
		Perpetually carved by erosion, the canyon lands of the Colorado Plateau are one of the most intricate landscapes on earth.
		Coal mined on the plateau would be burned in huge new coal-fired power plants whose polluting emissions could be expelled across the uninhabited wilderness at the heart of the plateau.
	www.suwa.org /WATE/cpintro.html (3910 words)

	The Province - REGION Empresa Periodística
		Likewise, it is related to the design, planning, and promotion of government policies like the incorporation of women in different positions, which is rendered in a joint work for the construction of a new constitutional model, by generating, consolidating, and protecting the equitable and supportive relationship between men and women, thus deepening the democratization process.
		The Salado-Chadileuvú River is undergoing a clear-cut hydrological deterioration as the provinces located in the region of its upper course have made use of its tributary rivers, which caused a tremendous environmental deterioration in the pampean land.
		To the west, in the Basaltic Plateau, there are approximately fifty springs resulting from the water intake of the volcanic rock that emerge in La Pampa.
	www.region.com.ar /english/province/prov_04.htm (2909 words)

	Chapter 36-Ecological Subregions of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This area is eroded by the Colorado River and its tributaries.
		The area is drained by the Colorado River and its tributaries.
		This Section is in the Colorado Plateaus physiographic province.
	www.fs.fed.us /land/pubs/ecoregions/ch36.html (3375 words)

	Utah Red Rocks - Visions of the Natural Stone Artisty of Southern Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Geographically, the Colorado Plateau is located almost entirely in Utah, with small sections extending into the adjacent states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
		The Colorado Plateau is an elevated, relatively thick, and geologically independent portion of the earth’s crust.
		The rocks of the Colorado Plateau are primarily of sedimentary origin, with lesser amounts of igneous and metamorphic rocks thrown in to spice up the mix.
	www.utahredrocks.com /location.htm (948 words)

	Chapter 6.5 Page 1
		In Colorado, the basin is bounded on the north by the Uncompahgre uplift, on the east by the San Juan Mountains, on the south by the San Juan Basin, and by the Utah-Colorado state line on the west (Figure 6.5-1).
		In Colorado, the Paradox Basin is primarily located in Dolores, San Miguel, and western Montrose counties.
		According to the Colorado Division of Water Resource’s (DWR) well permit database, less than 2,000 bedrock wells are located in the basin, with most clustered around the population centers and river courses (Figure 6.5-1).
	geosurvey.state.co.us /wateratlas/chapter6_5page1.asp (234 words)

	Grand Canyon National Park - Nature & Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is a world-renowned showplace of geology.
		The Colorado River has carved the Grand Canyon into four plateaus of the Colorado Plateau Province.
		The Province is a large area in the Southwest characterized by nearly-horizontal sedimentary rocks lifted 5,000 to 13,000 feet above sea level.
	www.nps.gov /grca/pphtml/subnaturalfeatures14.html (726 words)

	The Colorado Plateau Region (part 4 of 4)
		Asked by the National Park Service to identify potential "Natural Landmarks" on the Colorado Plateau, two teams of geologists dashed into the field like starving children let loose in a candy store, and returned with a list of no fewer than 110 sites which deserve national recognition as classic displays of geologic phenomena.
		The Colorado Plateau harbors some of the world's most spectacular volcanic formations, including laccolithic mountain ranges, jet-fl basalt "dikes" that cut across the landscape like the Great Wall of China, and expanses strewn with obsidian and volcanic bombs.
		Just 50 years ago Wilderness Society founder Robert Marshall identified the region surrounding the Colorado River canyons in southeastern Utah as the single largest roadless area in the coterminous United States.
	www.cpluhna.nau.edu /Places/coloplateau4.htm (454 words)

	Geology of the Grand Canyon area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moenkopi outcrops are found along the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, on Cedar Mountain (a mesa near the southeastern park border), and in Red Butte (located south of Grand Canyon Village).
		A second period of uplift started 17 million years ago, creating the Colorado Plateaus (the Kaibab, Kanab, and Shivwits plateaus bound the northern part of the canyon and the Cococino bounds the southern part).
		Before the uplift the plateau region was about 1000 feet (300 m) above sea level and bounded by high mountains to the south and west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geology_of_the_Grand_Canyon_area (4953 words)

	Southern Rockies Geology
		The ancient basement rocks of southern Colorado were formed during Proterozoic orogenies, mostly in the middle Proterozoic, 1.0 to 1.8 billion years ago.
		In Colorado, marine sandstone, shale, and chalk accumulated to considerable thickness during the Cretaceous.
		Crustal uplift of the entire southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau regions exceeded one mile (1.6 km) in vertical movement.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/field/rocky_mt/rocky.htm (1652 words)

	Resource Guide
		Basin and Range Physiographic Province: of which the Great Basin is a portion, is an elevated plateau-land approximately 4000 feet in elevation, characterized by north-south trending desert mountain ranges separated by broad desert valleys.
		This area is characterized by extensive mountain areas of complex structure, separated by narrow valleys which have been modified extensively by stream erosion and fault action.
		Colorado Plateaus Physiographic Province: includes the mountainous portions of the central and eastern parts of the state (southward from the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains) and the desert canyonlands between them.
	departments.weber.edu /botany/UMFT/guide.htm (5059 words)

	Colorado Plateau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Part of the Wasatch Line and its various faults form the western edge of the province.
		Using fragile boats and small groups of men the Powell Expeditions charted this largely unknown region of the United States for the federal government.
		There are nine U.S. National Parks, a National Historical Park, sixteen U.S. National Monuments and dozens of wilderness areas in the province along with millions of acres in U.S. National Forests, many state parks, and other protected lands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colorado_Plateau (2382 words)

	USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » Intermountain West Region
		The majority of this deformation is occurring close to the plate boundaries in California and off the Oregon and Washington coasts, but a significant part of this deformation extends eastward across the Basin-and-Range Province of Nevada and Utah and throughout the Intermountain West, all the way to the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains.
		Even though the occurrence of earthquakes in the Intermountain West region is modest in comparison to the West Coast, it contains abundant evidence of geologically young (Holocene and Pleistocene in age) large earthquakes that have ruptured the ground surface and produced fault scarps (Fig.
		It includes the extended terrain of the Basin-and-Range Province, the Colorado Plateaus, the Rocky Mountains, and the Rio Grande rift of west Texas, New Mexico and Colorado (Fig.
	earthquake.usgs.gov /regional/imw (596 words)

	2535S, MARKAGUNT PLATEAU FAULTS
		Synopsis: Poorly understood bedrock faults of middle to late Pleistocene age in the Markagunt Plateau east of Parowan Valley.
		The plateau is in the Southern High Plateaus, a physiographic area capped by the most extensive expanse of extrusive igneous rocks in Utah.
		The area is divided into seven distinct plateaus, based on physiographic breaks produced by external bounding cliffs and internal alluvium-filled valleys following north-trending fault lines or narrow grabens.
	geology.utah.gov /maps/geohazmap/qfaults/imagemap2/maptext/2535S.htm (233 words)

	Physiographic Regions
		Geomorphic, or physiographic, regions are broad-scale subdivisions based on terrain texture, rock type, and geologic structure and history.
		Nevin Fenneman's (1946) three-tiered classification of the United States - by division, province, and section - has provided an enduring spatial organization for the great variety of physical features.
		The composite image presented here clearly shows the topographic textures and generalized geology (by age) from which the physical regions were synthesized.
	tapestry.usgs.gov /physiogr/physio.html (120 words)

	Summary of December 1999 Meeting of the New England Botanical Club
		The Colorado Plateaus define the southeastern portion of the state while the southwestern corner is considered an eastern extension of the Mojave Desert floristic province.
		A western fifth of the state consists of the Great Basin (formerly occupied by the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville) and 35 associated mountain ranges including the calcareous Wasatch Mountains that form the Basin's eastern border.
		This leaves one or more provinces in the east that include the Uinta Mountains with floristic affinities to the Rocky Mountains, the Uinta Basin, considered by some to be part of the Colorado Plateaus, and the La Sal Mountains along the border with Colorado.
	www.rhodora.org /Summaries/1999/Dec99sum.html (1166 words)

	Utah horseback riding, trail rides and horse pack trips in the Canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau
		Hondoo's trips focus on scenic and distinctive landforms in the middle section of the Colorado Plateau west of the Colorado River.
		The facade of cliffs separating the terrace levels appear as majestic walls, murals, pilasters, and columns forming the most dramatic features in a dramatic landscape...
		The Colorado Plateau is the most distinctive province in the United States, being world-famous not only for many scenic attractions but also for the diversity of geologic features displayed with textbook simplicity."
	www.hondoo.com /country.htm (263 words)

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