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Checkerboard Mesa. Checkerboard Mesa is an iconic 6,520+ ft (1,990+ m) elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located in Zion National Park, in Kane County of southwest Utah, United States. [3] Checkerboard Mesa is situated immediately southwest of the park's east entrance, towering 900 feet (270 meters) above the Zion – Mount Carmel Highway.
The crosshatched appearance of Checkerboard Mesa is a good example . Springs, such as Weeping Rock , form in canyon walls made of the porous Navajo Sandstone when water hits and is channeled by the underlying non-porous Kayenta Formation. [14] The principal aquifer in the region is contained in Navajo Sandstone. [15]
Geology of Colorado. Coordinates: 38.9972°N 105.5478°W. Clockwise from upper left: Garden of the Gods, Rocky Mountain National Park, Pikes Peak, Wheeler Geologic Area. The bedrock under the U.S. State of Colorado was assembled from island arcs accreted onto the edge of the ancient Wyoming Craton. The Sonoma orogeny uplifted the ancestral ...
Geology. The Mesaverde Group is a Late Cretaceous stratigraphic group found in areas of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, in the Western United States. The group is a single regression - transgression sequence in its type location in the San Juan Basin, dividing the older marine Mancos Shale and younger Lewis Shale deposited in the ...
Website. Zion National Park. Zion National Park is a national park of the United States located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety of life zones that allow for unusual plant and animal diversity.
Colorado Group. Colorado is a geologic name applied to certain rocks of Cretaceous age in the North America, particularly in the western Great Plains . This name was originally applied to classify a group of specific marine formations of shale and chalk known for their importance in Eastern Colorado. The surface outcrop of this group produces ...
Book Cliffs. Coordinates: 39°10′00″N 110°17′33″W. The Spring Canyon sandstones in the Book Cliffs above Helper, Utah, with several sedimentary cycles visible in the cliffs. Book Cliffs and Mt. Garfield (on right, approximate altitude 6,600 ft or 2,000 m) in Mesa County, Colorado. The Book Cliffs near Green River, Utah, ca. 1879–1894.
Colorado Springs is located in the Pikes Peak area in El Paso County, along the Front Range [ 1]: 14 a forty-mile corridor from the city up to Fort Carson. [ 2] At the edge of the southern Rocky Mountains, [ 1]: 31 it is bordered by State, National Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management land. [ 1]: 14 North of the city is the Palmer ...