Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
Page A new park is born 1 Major Powell’s river expeditions 4 Early history 9 Prehistoric people 9 Late arrivals 14 Geographic setting 17 Rocks and landforms 20 How to see the park 26 The high mesas 27 Island in the Sky 27 Dead Horse Point State Park 30 North entrance 34 Shafer...
Page A new park is born 1 Major Powell’s river expeditions 4 Early history 9 Prehistoric people 9 Late arrivals 14 Geographic setting 17 Rocks and landforms 20 How to see the pa...
2. Part 2Visitors to the Needles district pass through Indian Creek State Park 12 miles west of U.S. Highway 163. The principal attraction, which is visible at the base of the Wingate Sa...
3. Part 3The map (fig. 1) and cross section (fig. 10) of the park show that in general the major features of the landscape lie at three different and distinctive levels. A recently erect...
4. Part 4Just west of Upheaval Dome, Bighorn Mesa is connected to Steer Mesa by a neck only 15 feet wide flanked by 300-foot vertical cliffs, as pointed out by McKnight (1940, p. 12). I...
5. Part 5The unusual features of the Needles district are due in some part to the character and thickness of the underlying rocks but in large part to erosion along joints and faults. Jo...
6. Part 6Above the confluence, a so-called Friendship Cruise is run each year during the Memorial Day weekend. Participants tow their own power boats on trailers to the town of Green Riv...
7. Part 7About 12 miles below The Portal we reach Potash—the potash “mine” (fig. 70) of Texas Gulf, Inc. (See fig. 31 and its associated text for description of operation.) Travelers dow...
8. Part 8Dinosaur N. M., with exposed rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Cretaceous, represents the greatest time span (nearly 2 billion years) but has one unit—the Jurassic Morris...
9. Part 9C Campgrounds, Hatch Point 48 near Green River Overlook 43 Peek-a-boo Spring 68 Squaw Flat 2, 63 Windwhistle 47 Cane Creek anticline 31, 50, 53, 100 Canyon de Chelly National Mo...
10. Part 10T Taylor Canyon 91 The Doll House 58 The Fins 58 The Grabens _73_ age 79 Cyclone Canyon 79, 80 Devils Lane 75, 80 Devils Pocket 75 origin 79 The Loop 85, 104 The Maze 58 The Nec...