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(expandable)-Map of Utah. The named plateaus and mesas of Utah. ... Diamond Mountain Plateau; E. East Tavaputs Plateau; Y. Yampa Plateau; Washington County. H ...
The Kaiparowits Plateau is a large, elevated landform located in southern Utah, in the southwestern United States. Along with the Grand Staircase and the Canyons of the Escalante , it makes up a significant portion of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument .
The plateau, a tectonic uplift on the much larger Colorado Plateau landform, is the highest in Utah. [1] [2] It is over 900 square miles (2330 km 2) of mostly forested highland, much of which is part of Dixie National Forest. It has over 50,000 acres (200 km 2) of rolling hilly terrain above 11,000 feet (3350 m).
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Eastern (northern quarter) Utah is a high-elevation area covered mostly by plateaus and basins, particularly the Tavaputs Plateau and San Rafael Swell, which remain mostly inaccessible, and the Uinta Basin, where the majority of eastern Utah's population lives.
Wasatch Plateau, Utah-Sanpete-Carbon-Emery-Sevier Wasatch Range : (north to south), Cache-Box Elder-Weber-Morgan-Davis-Salt Lake-Summit-Wasatch-Utah-Juab-Sanpete Wasatch County
Robert B. Keiter, Sarah B. George and Joro Walker (editors), Visions of the Grand Staircase–Escalante: Examining Utah's Newest National Monument (Utah Museum of Natural History and Wallace Stegner Center, 1998) ISBN 0-940378-12-4; Julian Smith, "Moon Handbooks Four Corners" (Avalon Travel Publishing, 2003) ISBN 1-56691-581-3
The Paunsaugunt Plateau (pronounced "PAWN-suh-gant") is a dissected plateau, rising to an elevation of 7,000–9,300 feet (2,100–2,800 m), in southwestern Utah in the United States. Located in northern Kane County and southwestern Garfield County , it is approximately 10 miles (16 km) wide, and extends southward from the Sevier Plateau ...