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Travel with Powell on his harrowing 1869 journey of exploration to descend the Green to the Colorado down to the foot of the Grand Canyon. This 9 x 12 book is overflowing with beautiful photos and details for your enjoyment.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Colorado Plateau
ISBN : 9780887140907
Travel with Powell on his harrowing 1869 journey of exploration to descend the Green to the Colorado down to the foot of the Grand Canyon. This 9 x 12 book is overflowing with beautiful photos and details for your enjoyment.
Author : Gary Ladd
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1995-07
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ISBN : 9780887148040
Explore thousands of square miles of stunning rock formations throughout Utah and Arizona, glimpsing the past through the canyons and mesas of this magnificent plateau. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and interpretive text for your enjoyment.
Author : Ronald C. Blakey
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
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Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and New Mexico. Ancient rivers spill from a mountain range in Colorado that was a precursor to the modern Rockies. Such flights of geologic fancy are now tangible through the thought-provoking and beautiful paleogeographic maps, reminiscent of the maps in world atlases we all paged through as children, of Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau.Ron Blakey of Northern Arizona University is one of the world's foremost authorities on the geologic history of the Colorado Plateau. For more than fifteen years, he has meticulously created maps that show how numerous past landscapes gave rise to the region's stunning geologic formations. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau is the first book to showcase Blakey's remarkable work. His maps are accompanied by text by Wayne Ranney, geologist and award-winning author of Carving Grand Canyon. Ranney takes readers on a fascinating tour of the many landscapes depicted in the maps, and Blakey and Ranney's fruitful collaboration brings the past alive like never before.Features: More than 70 state-of-the-art paleogeographic maps of the region and of the world, developed over many years of geologic research Detailed yet accessible text that covers the geology of the plateau in a way nongeologists can appreciate More than 100 full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations A detailed guide of where to go to see the spectacular rocks of the region
Author : Laura Foster Huenneke
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816531595
"With a plethora of updates and insights into land conservation and management questions on the Colorado Plateau, The Colorado Plateau VI shows how new technologies for monitoring, spatial analysis, restoration, and collaboration improve our understanding, management, and conservation of outcomes at the appropriate landscape scale for the Colorado Plateau"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Donald L. Baars
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780826323019
Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Colorado Plateau
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Author : Charles Van Riper
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816527380
Roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, the Colorado Plateau covers an area of 130,000 square miles. The relatively high semi-arid province boasts nine national parks, sixteen national monuments, many state parks, and dozens of wilderness areas. With the highest concentration of parklands in North America and unique geological and ecological features, the area is of particular interest to researchers. Derived from the Eighth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, this third volume in a series of research on the Colorado Plateau expands upon the previous two books. This volume focuses on the integration of science into resource management issues, summarizes what criteria make a successful collaborative effort, outlines land management concerns about drought, provides summaries of current biological, sociological, and archaeological research, and highlights current environmental issues in the Four Corner States of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. With broad coverage that touches on topics as diverse as historical aspects of pronghorn antelope movement patterns through calculating watershed prescriptions to the role of wind-blown sand in preserving archaeological sites on the Colorado River, this volume stands as a compendium of cuttingedge management-oriented research on the Colorado Plateau. The book also introduces, for the first time, tools that can be used to assist with collaboration efforts among landowners and managers who wish to work together toward preserving resources on the Colorado Plateau and offers a wealth of insights into land management questions for many readers, especially people interested in the natural history, biology, anthropology, wildlife, and cultural management issues of the region.
Author : Richard Maxwell Pearl
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Science
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0803229909
Written in the tradition of Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams, this collection of essays inspired by a year spent hiking 120 desert canyons explores the "sacred geography" of the West, discussing a wide range of issues, from bears to spatial intelligence.
Author : Alan D. Howard
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Geomorphology
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