Some of the most memorable geologic maps I've seen have been of national ... Thanks to the uplift of the Colorado Plateau on which the state sits, many layers of relatively easily eroded ...

and Colorado. The Plateau’s spectacular scenery records the history of the western United States since the Precambrian times (~2 billion years ago), and is a perfect location to study geology. “Bom ...

The Arizona Daily Sun reports (https://bit.ly/1pzJ1oc) that the Grand Canyon Trust unveiled a new Colorado Plateau Explorer website last week. The site contains maps and data involving the 130,000 ...

Is that the right word for the Colorado Plateau ... carving canyons. That's Plateau Geology 101, slightly abbreviated. Winging 2,500 feet (762 meters) over this rockscape, I feel a tenuous ...

Figure 1: Elevation map of the Colorado plateau. Figure 4: The inferred progression of events associated with lithospheric foundering and the geometry of the drip today. We propose that a series ...

The reason we see so much geology exposed on the plateau is that it is relatively arid, with little to no vegetation; the steep gradients of the Colorado River basin (which encompasses several ...